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FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 



CONCERNING 



The University of Illinois 



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Facts For Freshmen 



CONCERNING 



The University of Illinois 



Intended for Young Men 
About to Enter College 



BY 



THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men 
ARTHUR RAY WARNOCK Assistant Dean of Men 



Published by the University 

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This little book is intended primarily for young men who 
are entering or who have entered the University of Illinois. 
It is hoped that it will make them better acquainted with the 
history and the life of the institution, and that it will give 
them help and information for which they might often hesi- 
tate to ask. 



INDEX 

PAGE 

Getting Started 7 

Choosing a Course 11 

The Problem of Living 20 

The Freshman in College 28 

Class Attendance 41 

Studies and Other Things 44 

College Activities 52 

Class Organization 75 

Historical Sketch 81 

The Organization of the University 90 

The Campus and University Buildings 92 

Miscellaneous Information loi 

Calendar 104 



Getting Started 



Presuming that you have decided to enter the University 
of Illinois, that you are a graduate of an accredited high 
school, and so do not need to take entrance examinations, that 
you have chosen your course, and that you have a permit from 
the Registrar to enter the college you have selected, there are 
still a few directions which it might be well at the outset to 
give attention to. 

You can come into Champaign or Urbana by the Illinois 
Central, the Big Four, or the Wabash rairoads, or by the 
Illinois Traction System. Whichever way you may come, a 
local electric car will land you at the University grounds 
within a few minutes. You will be met at or on the train by 
all sorts of commissaries or representatives, each of whom 
will offer to conduct you about, and will at the same time 
solicit your patronage of his boarding club or lodging house, 
or other particular pet scheme. Go slowly. 

As to the choice of a lodging place. 

1. Be sure that your room is clean, sanitary, well heated, 
and wxll lighted. 

2. Do not take a room without making a definite con- 
tract, and it will be better if this is in writing. 

3. Do not make a contract for more than one semester, 
and it is better that your agreement be such that you 
can give up the room at the end of any month if it 
does not prove satisfactory. 

4. Be sure that the bedding is clean and that the linen 
will be frequently changed. 

5. The fewer lodgers there are in the house the better. 

6. Have a definite understanding as to whether or not 
you are to pay for vacations. 

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As to getting registered. 

1. If you have obtained a permit to register before com- 
ing to the University, go first to the office of the Dean 
of your college. 

2. If you have not obtained a permit, go first to the office 
of the Registrar. 

3. At the office of the Dean of your college you will be 
given help and specific directions for registering. Fol- 
low these carefully, and ask questions if you are in 
doubt. 

4. Fill out carefully the coupon blank given you and be 
sure that in the part you retain for your own reference 
you have the instructors^ names and the numbers of 
the recitation rooms. 

5. After having turned in your study list you can not 
change a subject or drop a course without the ap- 
proval of the Assistant Dean of your college. 

6. Class attendance is supposed to begin at once and to 
be regular. 

7. Students are not expected to cut class at all. 

8. You will be measured for your military suit at some 
time during the week of registration. 

9. Military drill and the lectures in personal hygiene 
begin the week following registration. You must not 
miss the first of these. 

10. If you do not find your name posted consult the Dean 
•of Men. 



As to the management of your money. 

1. Open a bank account at once, even if you have little 
money; it will establish your credit and teach you 
business methods. 

2. Set out to live within your income; don't borrow or 
go into debt. 



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3. Don't join everything. The Athletic Association, the 
Y. M. C. A., the Students' Union, are all good. Join 
the Hospital Association whether you can afford it or 
not. 

4. Don't buy everything that is offered for sale, or sub- 
scribe for everything that is published. 

5. Take the Illini and other college publications if you 
can afford them, for they keep you in touch with col- 
lege life. 

6. Don't pledge yourself to a fraternity until you have 
had a little time to look around and to study the fel- 
lows who may ask you; you can always have time if 
you insist upon it. 



As to general suggestions, 

1. If you wish to drop a subject after registration do it 
regularly. If you *'cut" out of it you are very likely 
to get into serious trouble. 

2. If you want information or advice of any sort call at 
the office of the Dean of Men. 

3. Don't select a physician except upon the advice of some 
reliable University officer. 

4. Begin to study as soon as your lessons are assigned. 



As to getting a job. 

1. Don't try to work unless you must, and don't do it 
then unless you have more than average ability, con- 
centration, and physical strength. 

2. You should be on hand a week before the University 
opens if you want to be sure of a job. 

3. Go first for suggestions to the Y. M. C. A. or to the 
office of the Dean of Men, and then strike out for 
yourself. You can get a job if you keep at it. 



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4. Washing dishes, waiting table, and tending furnaces, 
are the jobs most easily obtainable by freshmen. 

5. You must see to it that your study schedule and your 
outside work do not conflict. 

6. If such a conflict arises see the Assistant Dean of 
your college or the Dean of Men. 

7. If you have to work for more than your board, you 
should seldom carry a full schedule of studies. 

8. If you get a job, no matter how menial or insignifi- 
cant it may be, do it as well as possible. You may 
want another some day. 



Choosing a Course 



When a young man announces to his friends in any un- 
metropolitan community that he is going to college, the first 
question he is likely to be asked is ''What are you going to 
study for?'* And when he goes home at Christmas time the 
first query with which he will be confronted is ''What are 
you studying for?" Education, at least in the minds of the 
majority of people, is for an object; looks forward to a 
definite future. 

There are a number of high school graduates, no doubt, 
who should not go to college; those who do not care for 
books or study, those who have no intel- 
Some Not lectual outlook or ambitions, those who 

Fitted for have heavy home obligations, or those 

College whose ambitions are chiefly to make money 

quickly, those who have little money and 
less talent, and the morally and physically weak — all these, 
or the most of them, at least, would often be better off if they 
went immediately to work rather than to waste their ow^n 
time, and the time of every one with whom they associate, 
in trying to carry a college course. Some must still toil with 
their hands, and reach success or failure without the training 
of books and why not these? 

As matters are now there are certain professions into 
which one is not likely successfully to enter without a college 
education. It is true that in the past men 
Some Profes- have often made a success in the ministry, 
sions Require in teaching, in law, in medicine, in scien- 
College Training tific investigations, and in engineering, with- 
out the exact and rigid training which col- 
lege offers, and it is also true that men sometimes will still 
reach distinction in these lines of work without such train- 
ing, but the number is growing gradually smaller. If one is 
to distinguish himself in any one of these lines he will do so 
most readily by giving himself the most thorough college 
training possible. 

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The choice of a profession, of a college course, should 
not be dependent, as it too often is, upon either chance or our 

associations. In choosing a course from 
Individual the long list of courses which the Uni- 

Should Choose versity offers the decision should be left 

very largely to you as an individual. The 
work you are to follow you should yourself select. Your 
father and mother may express preferences, your teachers 
and friends may give advice, but after all it is you who are 
to live the life, and do the work, and succeed or fail. You 
should listen to the advice, and have regard for the prefer- 
ences, but you should not be dominated by them. 

First of all you should determine the sort of work for 
which you are best fitted. You will be helped in this self- 
analysis by studying your work in the high 
Personal school, and determining from this what 

Fitness you have done most successfully. Your 

Necessary friends and teachers will be able to help 

you in this regard, though they may some- 
times be prejudiced in your favor, and decide that you can 
do a thing well because they desire you to do it well. If you 
do not enjoy mathematics, and if you get on with difficulty in 
these subjects, you are not likely to be a successful engineer; 
if literature and language do not appeal to you, and if you 
have little imagination or love of the beautiful, you should 
not elect to be either a poet or an architect; if you have 
been awkward and unsuccessful in the chemical or biological 
laboratory you should in all probability not make science your 
major subject. 

Besides studying your own fitness for a course of study, 
your choice may very well be influenced by what you like. 
If you like your work you will go at it 
Choose What with more energy and enthusiasm than if 
You Like it were distasteful to you, and so you will 

be very much more likely than otherwise to 
do it well. No matter how admirably we may be situated in 
the work in which we are engaged, there will come regularly 
the difficult, or the unexpected situation. There are always 



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unpleasant tasks in whatever business we may be engaged, 
and if we have no love for our work, if it does not interest 
us, if we can not come to it each day with exhilaration and 
joy, then we are indeed unfortunate. 

Do not choose a course of study simply because it seems 
in itself desirable. Scores of students fail in technical courses 
for the reason that they have chosen their course of study 
on its merits without determining their personal fitness to 
pursue such a course. No course of study, no matter how 
well planned it may be, is a good one for you unless you have 
some special fitness for it. Neither should you choose your 
course of study on the principle that the best course is the 
one that leads immediately to the most remunerative position. 
Your future success does not depend upon the course you 
take, but upon your own talents and especially upon your 
preparation and fitness to fill an important place. There are 
always opportunities for those who are thoroughly prepared to 
take advantage of them. A good many students choose a 
course of study because it seems easier than another, or be- 
cause it may be completed within a somewhat shorter time. 
Such a method is a very foolish one. Often the best course 
is the most difficult, and the one which takes the longest time 
to complete. If you have to work for your living in college 
you will usually show judgment if you do not plan to com- 
plete your work within the four years. A year more or less 
does not matter, provided you have done your work well. 
You are not likely to earn your living, and do in the same 
time creditably the work to which other students have all 
their time to devote. You will be sensible to take another 
year. 

There are certain mental and moral traits, no doubt, 
which are necessary to success in any line. It is quite con- 
ceivable that in order to get on as a presi- 
Other Traits dent of a great railroad system, or as a 

Necessary coal heaver, one should have energy. In- 

dustry, also, is necessary, no matter what 
we are trying to accomplish. Integrity, persistence, applica- 
tion, self-confidence within limits are all required if one is to 



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succeed in the most exalted positions or at the humblest 
tasks. 

If after you have entered upon a course chosen in all 
good faith, it comes to you that you have made an unwise 

choice, and are attempting something for 
Don't Be Afraid which you are not fitted, and for which 
to Change you have no liking, do not hesitate to 

change. Finish the semester you have be- 
gun, and do your work energetically, and as well as you can. 
It is quite likely that the work you are carrying will apply as 
electives on another course you may choose, but even if this 
is not true you will not want to show yourself a ''quitter*' in 
the midst of a game, and you will not be so likely to secure 
permission to change to a second course if you have not done 
your best in the first one. 

In choosing a course of study at a state institution like 
the University of Illinois, which is supported by the people 
of the State, you should do so not only 
Service to with an idea of what is best fitted to your 

the State own talents and tastes, and of what will 

bring you the most gratifying financial re- 
turns, but you should have in mind, also, in making your 
choice, that which will give you an opportunity for service 
to the State. Your education will cost the State of Illinois 
many times the amount which you will in fees pay to the 
institution. You are to pay this back by good citizenship ; by 
doing creditably whatever work you elect to do ; by doing it 
better than other people do it, and better than you yourself 
would have been able to do without the training you are to 
receive. When you choose your course, and when you are 
pursuing your course you should not lose sight of this fact. 

Every year I seem to meet more and more young men 
who want to go to college, but who are at sea as to what 
sort of work to take. They do not know just what each par- 
ticular course prepares a man to do, and they too often drop 
into something for which they are not fitted just because 
some friend has suggested that it is a ''good course to take." 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN I5 

Now, any course is a good one if the student shows fitness 
for it and interest in it. 

The courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 
are to prepare one for business or for a profession or to give 
him general training. Those persons who 
Liberal Arts take these courses go into teaching, or 

and Sciences business, or later take up the work of 
medicine, or the ministry, or law. Those 
who have faculty in writing, who enjoy the study of English 
and other languages, who read rapidly and speak correctly, 
should go into this college. Those who enjoy science and 
who wish to find their work in the practical application of 
science may have a chance in the study of physics, chemistry, 
ceramics, and other special or technical courses. The student 
who later expects to study medicine will also find his pre- 
liminary training in science and literature in this college. 

The student entering upon an engineering course should 
understand that he is taking the initial step leading to an 
exacting profession. Skill of hand is de- 
Engineering sirable, but not essential, though skill of 
hand alone will not make an engineer. 
The engineer's activities are based chiefly upon intellectual 
qualities and attainments. The man builds well as an engi- 
neer who understands the facts of practice and who is able 
to adapt these facts to his peculiar problems. The student 
who has fair ability, and a willingness to work, may achieve 
success as an engineer. Some taste for mathematics is a 
prerequisite, and in any case success in the mathematical work 
of a chosen course is absolutely essential. 

The College of Engineering ofTers courses in Architec- 
ture, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical 
Engineering, Mining Engineering, Municipal and Sanitary 
Engineering, and Railway Engineering, and each of these 
courses prepares for a definite work, the character of which 
is suggested by the name. 



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The boy brought up on a farm, with a training received in 
the country, and with land of his own, or a chance to get 

land, should find his life work on the farm 
Agriculture unless he can give a more than ordinarily 

good reason for doing otherwise. Men 
who like the free, independent, open life of the country, who 
enjoy working out of doors, who like animals, who take pleas- 
ure in nature, will find boundless opportunities in agriculture. 
It is interesting to note that half the students who come to the 
University College of Agriculture have not been brought up 
on a farm, and do not come from the farm, but from the 
towns and cities. Some of these men do not intend to become 
farmers, but expect to be bankers, business men, scientists, 
and they realize how closely these other interests are con- 
nected with scientific agriculture. 

The courses in agriculture at the University offer a suffi- 
cient variety of special lines to adapt themselves to the tastes 
and talents of the individual. One can not graduate without 
some special training, nor without having done some work to 
broaden his intellectual outlook. The major work of the 
college is done in five departments, — Agronomy, Animal Hus- 
bandry, Dairy Husbandry, Horticulture, and Household Sci- 
ence. The last of these furnishes training for young women 
in the science and art of household affairs and home making, 
as well as prepares teachers of domestic science in the schools. 
Men are not, however, excluded from these courses. Whether 
a man spcializes in Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Dairy 
Husbandry, or Horticulture should be determined by his 
tastes, his probable location after graduation, and his oppor- 
tunities to go into one sort of work or another. The student 
with a farm of his own should be guided largely by what is 
possible or best to do with that farm. 

Regular students entering the College of Law are now 
required to obtain two years of general college credit before 

they are admitted. Students twenty-one 
Law years of age, or over, may be admitted as 

special students, but are not eligible for a 
degree. Those who study law to acquaint themselves with 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN \J 

its principles as a part of a general education, without any 
intention of going into the practice of the profession, are 
increasing in number, but the qualifications for success on 
the part of these are not materially different from those 
qualifications required for the successful pursuit of a general 
education. 

The student who takes up the study of law for the pur- 
pose of later engaging in the practice of law as a profession 
should have a mind capable of logical analysis. A good 
memory, an untiring industry are not sufificient; the student 
must be able to apply legal reasoning to the solution of the 
questions submitted to him or he will fail as a lawyer. He 
must have the ability to think independently, to reason accur- 
ately. Law is made up of formal rules and precedents, but 
if the system is to live it must grow. The demand for lawyers 
of constructive ability is greater in this than in any other 
age. 

The law student should be of a practical turn of mind. 
The lawyer is called upon to solve the problems born of the 
struggle between conservative and radical forces; he should 
be of so practical a turn of mind that he can get away from 
old worn-out precedents, and at the same time not try to de- 
molish the entire structure of legal machinery. The idealist, 
the extremist, the socialist should not try to be a lawyer. 

The law student should have the power of ready ex- 
pression, both in writing and in speech. This ability is, of 
course, largely a matter of cultivation, but there should be 
some natural talent, especially if the student is ambitious to 
succeed as an advocate. He must have a guarded tongue, how- 
ever. The lawyer who talks too much, or too freely, does not 
inspire confidence. Men come to him with their troubles and 
their secrets. The law recognizes this fact in shielding the 
attorney and the client from testifying to any disclosures 
made by the client. If it is hard for the student to keep a 
close mouth, if he has a natural proneness to throw open his 
windows and expose his furniture, then he should not take 
up the profession of law. 



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Above all the young man who enters the study of law 
with a view to practicing the profession should have the in- 
stincts of honesty in a high degree. There is no profession 
in which the temptations to dishonesty, and the opportunities 
to commit fraud are greater than in the legal profession; and 
yet the success that is attained by sharp practice, cunning, and 
misrepresentation, is of short life. The brilliant lawyer with 
a low sense of honor never attains a high standing in his 
profession. The crook is out of place in the law. 

A great many people advise the young man not to go 
into the law, for the reason, as they say, that there are too 
many lawyers. No other profession offers wider opportunities 
for advancement and influence to young men of integrity, 
ability, and industry. Even at the outset the well-trained man 
may make a living, and will not need to "starve for ten years" 
as was once said to be expected. 

The student who takes up the work of the librarian should 
Idc methodical, adaptable, forceful, tactful, and careful of his 
appearance, since he will regularly have to 
Library Science meet people in a business way, and must 
be capable of doing business with the 
young and the old, the educated and the illiterate. The 
successful librarian is an organizer, and an administrator. 
The "lady-like" man need not apply for a job as librarian. 
He may not wisely be dogmatic in his views, but he must be 
able to think for himself, and to stand on his own feet. The 
librarian must know about books rather than to be a lover of 
books, or even a reader of books. There is a saying that "The 
librarian who reads is dead," which means that the up-to- 
date librarian is too busy to find time to read books ; he must 
know what is in them without reading them. 

Students who apply for admission to the Library School 
must present credentials showing that they possess a bach- 
elor's degree either from the University, or from some other 
approved college. The Library course is two years in length, 
and covers all phases of practical and technical Library work. 
The fact that the School is located in the University library 
is of inestimable value to students. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN IQ 

The demand for men as librarians, and as heads of de- 
partments in libraries is constantly increasing, with little like- 
lihood of its being supplied. The occupation is a pleasant one, 
which gives a man an immediate social standing in the com- 
munity in which he is employed. The life is independent, the 
hours are reasonable, and the remuneration satisfactory. 

The courses offered in the School of Music may very 
profitably form a part of a good general education. If, how- 
ever, a student hopes to make music a 
Music profession, and from its practice to earn 

a living, or to accomplish something of 
distinction, he should hesitate about going into it unless he 
has demonstrated pretty thoroughly that he has more than 
commonplace musical ability in one direction or another. Few 
professions are more exacting or demand for success greater 
genius or more persistent practice through many years. 

With fair skill, however, and a willingness to work, a 
music student has a reasonable future to look forward to, 
especially if he has had training in more than one line. If 
one has studied the piano, for instance, and can at the same 
time sing, play a violin, or a band instrument, he is likely to 
find satisfactory employment. Public school music is now re- 
ceiving attention all over the country, and offers opportuni- 
ties for those who have had the required training. It is only 
the broadly trained musician with some talent who will ever 
reach any degree of distinction. 



The Problem of Living 

I In the early days of the University students found the 
most attractive places to live at some distance from the 
campus, often lodging two miles or more from the University 
grounds. Now students are crowded as thickly and as closely 
as possible about the University, no one living more than a 
few blocks from the campus, excepting as he may wish to 
find a lodging place at a low price. All the college activities 
are near the campus, and if one wishes to enjoy these he 
must pay for the privilege. The farther away one goes the 
more removed he is from the real college life, and the more 
cheaply he can find lodging. One who has a reasonable 
amount of money furnished him need not consider these rela- 
tively small differences, however. 

A student coming to the University for the first time 
should not put off the selection of a lodging place until 

registration day, or he is likely to have 
Getting a little choice left him. He should choose 

Room early and thoughtfully with regard to his 

own comfort and convenience. Usually two 
students live together in one room, and this room is their 
home — parlor, study, living room, bed chamber all combined 
in one. It is desirable that it be well located, well heated, 
and well cared for. AH these points should be carefully con- 
sidered before the room is contracted for — they are much 
better adjusted before than after one has become a tenant. 
The matter of neighbors is important. It is undesirable 
for many freshmen to occupy the same lodging house; their 

habits of study are likely to be unformed. 
Neighbors and they waste each others' time without 

knowing it. It is unwise to live in a house 
where more than half the students are freshmen. Con- 
genialty and community of interest are well worth looking 
for; the new student is influenced materially for good or 
for evil by the men with whom he lives. 

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FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 21 

When you make a contract for a room be sure you have 
a definite and specific agreement, written if necessary. The 

custom in Champaign and Urbana, which 
Making a for all practical purposes is the law, is to 

Contract hold students to whatever contract, oral or 

written, which they have made. If no 
definite time is set, then, whether he gives notice or not, the 
student must pay simply for the month on which he his 
entered, and may leave at any time. If he makes a definite 
agreement for a semester, or for the year, for instance, then 
he is held to this, and unless he can show that the landlady 
has broken her contract, must pay for the full time. Students 
should keep these points in mind; for the fact that one later 
finds that he can get a better room at a cheaper rate, or find 
a more agreeable location, or get into a fraternity, does not 
absolve him from the responsibility of his contract. Usually, 
however, if he can discover some one who is willing to take 
the room off his hands he is allowed to move. As to the pay- 
ment of rent during the Christmas and other vacations, no 
general custom prevails. Some landladies make no deductions 
from the regular price; some charge but half rates for the 
time students are absent; and others make no charge at all. 
It is, therefore, all a ^natter of previous agreement, concern- 
ing which the student should be careful and definite. 

A list of available rooms in both cities, with description 
and prices, is ordinarily kept by the Young Men's Christian 
Association, where it may be consulted 
Y. M. C. A. freely by students. The office of the Dean 

List of Men will also be glad to furnish any 

information w^hich may aid students in the 
intelligent selection of lodging places. 

A comparison of prices will show that room rent is 
somewhat higher in Champaign than in Urbana, and some- 
what higher on Green, John, Daniel, and 
Comparison Chalmers streets in Champaign than in 

of Prices other parts of the city. About forty-five 

per cent, of the students live in Urbana, 
and about fifty-five in Champaign. It is also usually true 



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that a relatively larger percentage of the upper classmen live 
in Champaign than in Urbana. This is accounted for by the 
fact that practically all of the men's organizations have their 
houses or their headquarters in Champaign. 

The sensible student will not move often. If in business 
life three moves are equal to a fire, in college life that many 

moves are generally equal to a flunk; for 
Don't Move the man who can not get on with his land- 

Often lady is not likely to be more successful 

with his instructors. Every student should 
select such a place to live as will enable him to live comfort- 
ably, and to do his work quietly and regularly. The work of 
a college course is a man's work, and it takes most of the 
student's time to do it well. It is sometimes difficult to do 
it even under the most comfortable and favorable conditions. 
On this most important subject of getting on with the 
the landlady I might offer a few suggestions. The freshman's 

conduct in his room — and it is most fre- 
Getting on with quently the freshman who has the trou- 
the Landlady ble — ^very largely determines the landlady's 

frame of mind. A quiet, polite, orderly 
freshman usually hooks up with an obliging, tidy landlady. 
The student ought not to burn the lights when it is unneces- 
sary. If he makes some effort to keep his personal effects 
picked up off the floor, the landlady will be encouraged to 
keep the room clean. It is almost a hopeless task for her if 
the roomer takes no interest in keeping the place neat. If 
burnt matches and cigarette stubs and waste paper, and 
soiled clothing clutter the floor he need not be surprised if 
she is careless with the dusting. If the landlady goes to 
bed early, the student ought not to practice bass drum solos 
or start an impromptu concert at midnight. If he is of such 
a temperament as to require large numbers of friends to visit 
him, he ought to time their calls and the racket incident 
thereto in such a manner as to leave the other inhabitants of 
the place some opportunity to rest. If he shows courtesy 
and thoughtfulness, she is quite likely to prove an agreeable 
landlady. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 2^ 

There are a great many places about the University 
where students may get meals. Most students lodge at one 
place, and get their meals at another. The 
Meals boarding clubs and restaurants are man- 

aged in various ways. Some are "coopera- 
tive," some are managed by students, others are under private 
control ; but in any case the price of meals varies little, and 
one place is about as good as another. At some places both 
men and women are served, and at others only men are ad- 
mitted. There is perhaps more conventionality and better 
service at the mixed clubs than at others. The boarding house 
exclusively for men is likely to cause a degeneration in table 
manners. 

In recent years there have grown up about the campus 
a number of lunch rooms where one may get a respectable 
meal for a relatively small sum. These 
Avoid Lunch places serve twenty-one meals for a stated 
Counters sum, and because they allow the greatest 

freedom as to time and regularity of at- 
tendance upon meals they have been extensively patronized. 
The service at these places is rapid, but usually crude, and 
the influences are unrefined. The boy who eats his meals 
with a rush is very likely to develop chronic indigestion, and 
unconventional service is pretty sure to encourage crude and 
careless manners ; neither one of these things the college man 
can afford to carry about with him. The fact, too, that at 
such places the student pays only for what he selects, and 
so is given a chance to save money when his hunger is easily 
appeased, often leads him to choose an ill-nourishing or badly 
balanced ration. The student who tries to save money on his 
regular meals is laying up for himself an inheritance of in- 
digestion, of which he will find it difficult or impossible to rid 
himself. 



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All that has been said applies to the boy who has suffi- 
cient money, and whose chief problem is how to use his 
time discreetly, and how to spend his 
Earn Your money wisely. The young fellow who must 

Way Only If himself make his living, or even a part of 
You Must it, while he carries a college course, is in a 

much more difficult situation. Hundreds of 
students every year perform the double task successfully, but 
the efforts of many result in ill health and intellectual failure. 
There are few things about which more foolish statements 
are made by the general public than concerning the advantages 
which are supposed to accrue from working one's way 
through college. Poverty is always uncomfortable, and sel- 
dom a help. To earn one's way in college takes time and 
energy which might usually be devoted to more profitable 
things. No one should try it who is not forced to do so. 

Any one who is to earn his living in college should not 
begin without some money. It is better to defer entering 

college for a year or two after graduation 
Should Have from high school than to enter with no 
Some Money resources, and to be forced to depend upon 

picking chance jobs here and there for ex- 
istence. Fees, books, and other supplies draw heavily upon 
the student's resources at the beginning, and he must have 
something with which to meet this heavy drain. It is suffi- 
ciently difficult to adjust one's self immediately to a new en- 
vironment without adding to this the necessity at the same 
time of earning one's living. Nor is it easier, as boys often 
think, to earn one's living in college than it is to do so in 
other places, especially in small places like Champaign and 
Urbana, where hundreds of other people are trying to do the 
same thing. The work of a college course is supposed to 
take the most of one's leisure time, so that one who enters 
college should have at least enough money to carry him for 
a half year, and it would be wiser if he had enough for an 
entire year's expenses. It is seldom wise for such a man to 
attempt to carry a full schedule of studies. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 25 

Boys who come for the first time to country places like 
Champaign and Urbana do not at first realize how many 

men there are who are trying to earn a 
Hardest for living, and how difficult it sometimes is for 

New Men a new man at once to find something to do. 

Students who have been in college the pre- 
vious year have wisely picked up all the best jobs before going 
home, so that little is left for the newcomer except the dis- 
card — that is waiting table, washing dishes or tending fur- 
naces. 

The skilled laborer always gets more for his services 
than the one who can do nothing miore than ordinarily well. 

A student who can do no special work must 
Skill a take what he can get, and will receive for 

Help his services only the payment which is 

given the common laborer, that is com- 
monly twenty or twenty-five cents an hour. One who has 
learned a trade will very rapidly find employment on Satur- 
days, and for his odd hours. Those with special talents may 
earn their living more easily than others not so endowed. 
People who sing, or who play a musical instrument well, 
draftsmen, chauffeurs, barbers, bookkeepers, stenographers, 
and any with special training are much better fitted to help 
themselves than are those without such training. 

The boy who intends to take upon himself the burden 
of earning his living while in college should be mature — 

and by that I mean usually nineteen or 
Special twenty years of age. The burden is too 

Qualities great for the young boy to assume. He 

Necessary should have a good physique, for he will 

often be forced to keep irregular hours, 
either to bring up his college work, or to do his outside work. 
He will get into difficulty if he slights either. The boy who 
works for his living will have to give more conscious atten- 
tion to his clothing than other fellows, because he is not likely 
to have a new suit often; he must look neat, and yet his work 
is pretty sure to be hard on his clothing. He must keep his 
clothes in good condition, therefore, or he will soon come to 



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have a sloveny appearance. // any man needs to learn neat- 
ness of appearance^ and care in dress, it is the student who 
works for his living. 

He must be resourceful and adaptable, able to fit in any- 
where, and able also to use his brain in his work. It is the 
student who first meets an unsolved con- 
Waiting Table dition, or satisfies an unsatisfied want, who 
Easiest for makes good at earning a living. The num- 

New Man ber and variety of the places where a stu- 

dent may get work at the University is 
almost infinite, though of course the new student, as I have 
said, is most likely to find occupation in waiting table at the 
innumerable fraternities, clubs, and boarding houses about the 
campus. For this service he usually receives his board. 
Every one should depend on himself for a job. Very few 
people will hire a man solely on someone else's recommenda- 
tion; they want to see him and size him up themselves. A 
week before college opens is a good time to arrive in Ur- 
bana, the Young Men's Christian Association employment 
bureau will help, and the Dean of Men is a good man to see 
for initial directions ; then strike out for yourself, and if 
within two days you do not have a job it is your own fault. 
In getting a job at college it is the early bird that catches the 
caterpillar. 

The student who is earning his living is doing a double 
business, neither part of which he can afford to neglect. 
If the food supply runs out, he is put out 
Must Do of business, and if he fails at his studies, 

a Double he is put out of college, so there you are. 

Business He makes good in both lines only by con- 

serving his energies, developing concentra- 
tion of mind, and cultivating system in the use of his time. 
He can not afford to waste a moment. He will often have to 
sacrifice much, to keep out of many things that he would 
like to be a part of — athletics, social pleasures, college activi- 
ties generally, — and he will not always be able to do his col- 
lege work as well as he would like. College life is for him a 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 2"] 

compromise between what he would like to do, and what he 
must do. 

Whether a student has much or little money it is a good 
thing for him to establish business relations as soon as he 

comes to Champaign or Urbana. If pos- 
Don't Go sible each student should have a definite 

Into Debt monthly allowance due on a specific day, 

and on this he should see to it that he lives. 
It is better to have a bank account, and to pay all bills and 
accounts by check. Then the disagreements which frequently 
arise as to whether or not a bill has been paid will be impos- 
sible. Since students expect to live in a college town for 
four years they should not underestimate the importance of 
establishing at once a creditable reputation with the mer- 
chants with whom they are to do business. It is a good 
thing to have a regular place to trade, and to become per- 
sonally acquainted with the men with whom you spend your 
money. Dont go into debt, and don't borrozv of the other 
fellows in order to do things which you can not afford. It 
is never easier to pay up out of next month's allowance than 
it has been to meet your obligations out of this month's. It 
is not the size of your allowance which causes you to get 
on easily, but the way in which you manage what you have. 



The Freshman in College 

One can always tell you are a freshman at college. You 
may be as self-possessed as possible; you may dress as you 
choose; you may ask no foolish questions, 
Freshmen or show no lack of familiarity with the col- 

Always Known lege customs; but you are a marked man 
the moment you set foot on the campus. 
Whether you come from Chicago or a country town in 
Egy^pt with one general store and a post office, it makes 
little difference, you can not conceal the fact that you are 
a new comer beginning your first experience in college. You 
are like the American in Paris, or Rotterdam, who thinks 
that if he does not speak no one will know him for a for- 
eigner, but who is spotted a block away by every small boy, 
and fakir, in the street. 

No one knows how he tells a freshman — it is something 
of a matter of intuition. But the freshman learns rapidly to 
adapt himself to the new situation ; he 
Learns to picks up at once the ways of the campus ; 

Adapt Himself by Thanksgiving he seems like an old set- 
tler, and by the end of the year he is ready 
to meet incoming freshmen with unerring recognition and 
condescension. Sometimes he adapts himself too incom- 
pletely to his new environment. It is as much a fault to 
cling rigidly to one's home manners and habits and dress 
as it is to throw these to the winds and adopt the extremes 
of college customs and fads. In the unimportant things of 
college life it is well for the freshman to keep his eyes open 
and to "do as the Romans do" ; it is not wise for him, how- 
ever, on his return home at Thanksgiving to attempt to re- 
produce and to establish the customs of Rome in his home 
community. 

The differences between high school and college are 
marked, and are revealed in other directions quite as strongly 
as in physical and social ways. The high school boy who is 
thinking of taking up a college course seldom stops to con- 
sider — perhaps he ought not to be expected to know — that the 
methods of work and the ways of living are quite different 
in college from what they are in the high school. 

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FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 29 

It is not surprising that your idea of college life is an 
erroneous one. What you know of college you have most 
frequently gained from the exaggerated 
Comes With accounts of student escapades which you 

Wrong Idea have seen in the newspapers, or from the 

of College stories which you have heard related by 

your big brother or the local athlete who 
have returned home from the scenes of their scholastic tri- 
umphs. Such tales are usually unhampered by facts, and 
concern themselves more with the unusual and unimportant 
things of college than with its real work. If you have visited 
the college at all it has more than likely been at the time of 
an important athletic contest, or of an interscholastic meet, 
when nobody works, or talks of work, and when the main 
thing under consideration is the victory, and perhaps the 
celebration which follows. As you saw college then, it was 
a collection of care free young fellows with little to do but 
to enjoy themselves, and perhaps occasionally, if nothing 
more important prevents, to attend a few lectures. In point 
of fact college life is a strenuous one, where every man 
has his work which must be given regular and serious at- 
tention. If you are to get on well in college, or in life for 
that matter, the sooner you recognize this fact and adapt 
yourself to the situation the better. Failure in college comes 
from a failure to recognize the fact that the aims of the 
college are different from those of the high school, that the 
amount of work required is greater, and that the methods 
of doing it must, also, be different. You must adjust your- 
self to these changed conditions if you would get on. 

As a high school boy you have seldom worked inde- 
pendently. The relations between you and your teacher have 
been closer, and more personal, than they 
High School are likely at first to be in college. You 

Boy Not knew that if your work were not done 

Independent when it should be, your teacher would re- 

mind you of the fact; if it were not done 
as it should be, the oft uttered directions would be repeated. 
When you were in difficulty there was some one to get you 



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out. If the translation was hard, or the theme subject not 
suggestive, or the problem in mathematics refused to be 
solved, someone would help. Even if your teacher proved 
indifferent, or incapable, there were father and mother, or 
older brothers and sisters, or friends to fall back upon as a 
last resort. Whatever you did, or thought, was somewhat 
under the supervision of someone older or more experienced 
than yourself. You judged of your success, or your progress, 
by what these people said of you or to you. In college it is 
different. Everyone must look after himself ; much of his 
training consists in his doing so. If he doesn't hustle, no one 
is likely at once to call his attention to the fact. 

The problem of living has not materially concerned you 
before you came to college. You have lived at home, and 

your comings and goings have been under 
Some One the direction of the older members of the 

Has Thought household. The most of your wants have 
for You been provided for without much thought or 

attention on your part. Mother has darned 
your stockings and picked out your neckties, and father has 
paid the bills. You have usually had relatively little money 
to spend, and even your companions, if they have not been 
directly selected by your parents, have yet come to you 
through your environment quite as much as from your de- 
liberate choice. Your habits are as much the result of the 
conventions and customs of the community in which you 
have been brought up as of your own tendencies or inclina- 
tions. If you learned to dance it was because all the fellows 
did; if you went to church regularly, that was no necessary 
indication that you were religiously inclined; it was simply 
the custom. When you needed anything you asked for it, 
often without knowing much as to what it cost or where it 
came from. If your friends were not what they should be, 
or if your time were not well occupied, you knew very well 
that some one would shortly let you know about it. You 
had not yet been trained in independence or self-reliance of 
action. You were in most regards still a child. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 3 1 

At college it is different. When your study program is 
decided upon the disposal of your time is largely in your own 
hands. You may study one thing or an- 
In College You other, or you need not study at all. You 
Must Decide may read in the library, or walk down 

for Yourself town, or watch the team practicing on Illi- 

nois Field; there is no one to call you to 
account. If you attend regularly upon classes, and show a 
reasonable intelligence regarding your studies, you may em- 
ploy your time as you please. You may choose your own 
companions, and act with absolute independence. There is a 
delightful freedom in all this which is sometimes deceiving. 
You may assume that since no one calls you to account today 
there will be no reckoning tomorrow, but in this you are mis- 
taken. Your time is your own, but it is your own to use 
wisely, and if you fail in this regard, you will suffer in the 
final reckoning, for there surely is to be one. 

I should not want you to feel that the life in college is 
vitally different than what it has been for each of you in 
your home communities, but at home your 
College Life comings and goings have been carefully 

Not Vitally watched and this fact has shielded you 

Different and has kept you from having to make 

many a decision youreslf. 

On entering college you will have some definite problems 
to face in a more personal way than they have ever before 

been presented to you. In most cases you 
Definite have previously been familiar more or less 

Problems closely with all the temptations which are 

to Face to be found in college, but at home you 

have often been shielded from them — they 
have been more a name than a reality to you. Sooner or 
later every man must meet temptation face to face and say 
yes or no to its proposals. To most young fellows the criti- 
cal time comes at about the age when he goes to college. 
For this the college is in no way responsible, though many 
conscientious men have tried to hang the blame there. 



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I should not feel that this little book was quite fulfilling 
its mission if in it I did not warn you against temptations 
peculiar to young men at the age when they enter college, 
and which in college, perhaps, are touched up with peculiar 
allurements and attractions. It is true that a large majority 
of young men are little touched by these temptations and still 
fewer are permanently injured by them, but those who fail 
in college do so usually not from inability to do the work, 
but because they are led away by these other and often baser 
things. 

First of all there is the habit of loafing. As a high 
school boy you have perhaps worked little. What you have 
acquired has been gained by cleverness and 
Learn to Work; quickness of preception rather than by con- 
Not to Loaf centration and hard study. This ability to 
work hard and to concentrate j'-our atten- 
tion upon your work you must learn, and you will seldom 
learn it except by serious practice. Most college men I 
think expect to work hard, but the trouble is to get at 
it today, and to keep at it tomorrow, and to concentrate 
the mind upon it while at work. Before you leave the 
train which is carrying you to your college town, some- 
times unfortunately even before you are out of high school, 
you will have made engagements for days and weeks in 
advance which will often seriously interfere with the real 
work of college. There is the fraternity rushing, and the 
open grate fire, and the pipe, and the vaudeville show, and 
the new found friend, and the moon smiling down and in- 
viting you out to stroll, and all these pleading in the strong- 
est terms for self-indulgence, and self-gratification. There 
are a thousand other new and fascinating things which you 
may call by any name you please, but which after all are 
only another name for loafing. If you get into the habit of 
dawdling away your time, you can conjure up a hundred ap- 
parently good excuses for not studying, and for not going 
to class. 

Perhaps one of the main reasons why it all seems so at- 
tractive and so safe is because the days are so long, and the 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 33 

time of final reckoning so far ahead and youth is so optimis- 
tic. I seldom call a man for procrastination and neglect of 
duty who does not tell me that it had been his serious inten- 
tion to see me that day even if I had not called him, and I 
presume he is often telling the truth. I seldom talk to a 
loafer who has not promised himself, even before I urge him 
to get down to serious work, that he will stop his loafing at 
once. Loafing is a habit easily learned and hard to break, 
and it ruins more college careers, at the very outset, than 
does any other vice. Then you should have a regular time 
for going to work each evening and in the simple community 
in which we live this should seldom be later than half past 
seven o'clock. You should not be turned from the habit by 
alluring invitations to get into card games, or to stand around 
the piano and develop your taste for poor music, or to waste 
the evening in attendance upon a low class vaudeville show, 
or a racy moving picture performance, or even to sit in front 
of the fire and talk about politics or the girls with your room 
mate. When the time comes for study you should go to it 
as if you liked it, and do this six days in the week and 
three or four hours a day. If you do this for a month or 
two there will be little likelihood of your developing into 
a chronic loafer. I have said all of this knowing that every 
healthy young fellow will want pleasure and relaxation and 
knowing also that he ought to have it. But the day furnishes 
time enough for class work and study and recreation and 
sleep if the twenty-four hours are intelligently utilized, and 
there is plenty of healthy recreation for the body and the 
mind if one will look for it. 

The temptation to waste time in gambling is an ever 
present danger. There is a fascination in a game of 

chance which many a young man finds 
Gambling it hard to resist. It is so easy to argue 

Dangerous that one must have some recreation and 

that if the time spent in playing games of 
chance is not intemperate or in excess of what one can af- 
ford there should be no objection to the practice on the part 
of any sensible people. As to the money lost (or won, for 



34 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

some one usually wins) it is often a neglible quantity, and in 
most cases not more perhaps than you might spend on a 
iirst class show or an entertainment of any sort. 

**What is the harm to me?" a young man asked me not 
long ago. *'I can afford the time and the money it costs 
me. Why should I not play poker for money?" 

I should answer that it is a dangerous habit, because it 
almost invariably leads to excesses. The gambler learns to 
take risks which he can not aft'ord, to waste time that should 
be given to something else, to bet and to lose money which 
was not intended for this purpose, and he develops at once 
a reputation for unreliability. No business man, even if he 
liimself gambles, cares to employ a young fellow who has or 
Avho has had the habit, simply because he knows the dangers 
which surround it. I have known few men who began the 
habit in college who found it easy to break it, and I have 
known none who, even though they played for sm.all stakes 
and won or lost very little money, were not injured by it. 
If the habit is nothing more it is a time waster and leads 
you into associations which it were usually better not to 
liave formed. 

As to drinking, many fellows say to me that they 
learned to drink at home with their fathers and mothers 
about the dinner table. This may all be 
Drinking true, and to such men I have nothing to 

Brings Coarse say, so long as they drink with their fath- 
Associations ers and mothers at home. The drinking 

habit as I have seen it practiced in our col- 
lege community for many years has never been a help or an 
advantage to any student, and it has usually been a distinct 
injury. The only excuse for it is that it is supposed to en- 
courage sociability and to promote good fellowship. In 1913 
a law was passed in Illinois prohbiting any one from selling 
or giving away liquor within four miles of the State Uni- 
versity. When liquor can be obtained only by violating the 
law or by going to some disreputable or remote place to get 
it the sort of good fellowship which it encourages is not of 
a very high order. The kind of people both men and women 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 35 

whom you are likely to meet at these places is not such as 
a college student will be helped by knowing, and the time 
spent in their society is not usually spent in such a way as 
to make you a better citizen. It is a fact, also, that prac- 
tically all the young fellows I have known who speak of the 
harmlessness of ''taking a glass of beer occasionally'' at one 
time or another take more than they can carry and are the 
worse for it. The loafing about saloons and drinking places 
will almost invariably develop in you lazy, shiftless habits, 
will lower your moral tone, and will injure your studies. 
Only today as I have been attending to my official duties I 
was called upon to talk to a young fellow about his work. 
He had been cutting classes badly, his grades were running 
down, and he seemed intellectually to be going to pieces. He 
had all sorts of excuses to give, but before he left me it all 
came out that he had been drinking instead of studying, and 
he had been cutting classes to sleep off the effects of his dis- 
sipation. The safest plan if you are going to college with 
the idea of doing honest, satisfactory work is to leave the 
drinking of intoxicating liquors to those who have no real 
interest in the development of their moral and intellectual 
powers, for the drinking habit will invariably play havoc 
with your college work, not to speak of your morals. 

Smoking, too, although it can scarcely be called an im- 
moral habit, has upon nervous and growing young fellows a 

bad effect. It is likely to develop restless- 
Smoking Dulls ness and indigestion with the result that 
the Brain your power of concentration is weakened, 

your brain dulled, and the likelihood of 
your doing good work very much lessened. The habit of 
using tobacco is in these days so common and so little 
thought of among young men that it seems almost a waste 
of time to speak against it. I have, however, seen too many 
nervous systems weakened by its use, and the work of too 
many students injured irreparably, not to utter a word of 
warning against it. Though the number of young fellows 
in college who smoke is regrettably large, you will gain 
nothing either in prestige or dignity by doing so. The abil- 



36 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

ity to hold a pipe between the teeth or to puff at a cigarette 
does not make you more of a man even in a college com- 
munity, and the fact that you do not smoke brings you into 
no discredit. No one need to say that he was forced into 
smoking in college or that he was made uncomfortable by 
refusing to do so. If you find, therefore, that smoking is in- 
juring your temper and your pocketbook, and your studies, 
give it up ; you will be quite as popular as you were before, 
and may be more of a man. 

If you have come from a healthy home where you have 
been taught by a good mother to live a clean life and to re- 
spect all women, you may be shocked at first by some of the 
views which are presented to you, and later you may even 
come to the point of asking yourself if perhaps you have not 
been a trifle prudish in your ideas, and if the other fellow 
may be right in his views. 

There will be those who will try to teach you that it is 
not only not necessary for 3^ou to lead a chaste clean life, but 
that it is positively not a healthy thing for 
Respect for you to do so. They will teach you that if 

Women and you desire to gain your highest physical 

Clean Life Best development you must gratify your phys- 
ical desires, and such men are only too 
willing to show you how this may be done. The state- 
ments of thousands of reputable physicians are to the effect 
that no young man suffers physically by living a life of 
chastity, but on the contrary he gains in strength and en- 
durance by such a course. The young man who allows him- 
self to be led into the associations of lewd women either 
through curiosity or the desire to know something of "real 
life" is running the gravest sort of danger. Most men who 
submit themselves to such temptations fall a prey to them, 
and the result in most cases is a weakened will, a lowered 
moral tone, disease, a wrecked body, and eternal regret. 

Only a few months ago I stood beside the operating 
table where a young college student was about to submit 
to a critical operation to alleviate a disease which he had 
contracted from a prostitute. He was thinking, I know, of 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 37 

the pain which he must endure and of the danger to his life, 
and looking up into my face he said, having in mind the 
many fellows to whom I talk every year, *'Tell them they 
always have to pay for it; they always have to pay for it." 
Through many years of observations on thousands of stu- 
dents I have come to know that the boy's words are true. 
The clean, continent life is the only safe one, and those young 
men who think otherwise and who gratify their physical pas- 
sions "pay for it" ultimately in ruined health, and ruined 
characters, and ruined studies. The student with a clean 
mind and clean morals has the best chance of winning the 
high scholastic standing. One other thing that you might 
very well keep in mind — some day you are going to want to 
have a home of your own; and to take to it the girl whom 
you have chosen to be your wife. If at that time you can 
come to her with a body free from the effects of disease 
and a past life clean and wholesome, you may count the 
sacrifices of self control as nothing compared with the satis- 
faction you will then feel. 

In coming to the University of Illinois, you will meet all 
of these temptations which I have named, but if you are to 
get the most out of your work, if you are 
You Can Meet to develop into the sort of citizen which 
Temptation the state is wanting to educate, you will 

meet them manfully and you will conquer 
them as it is possible for every strong, healthy man to do, and 
as most healthy fellows succeed in doing. No one can help 
you much; it is a part of the problem of living which you 
must yourself solve. 

Fathers and mothers often feel that this sending the 
boy away from home and putting him in the way of temp- 
tation and upon his own responsibility is a 
Must Take danger which they can not risk. They want 

Responsibility constantly to watch over, guide, and direct 
him, so they bring him to college and keep 
up the methods of childhood throughout his college career. 
It is an interesting fact that few boys whose homes are in a 
college town, or whose parents or guardians bring them to 



38 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

college, and continue a more or less complete chaperonage 
over them while there, do well in their college work. A col- 
lege officer was asked not long ago by an otherwise sensible 
mother who had hovered anxiously over her young offspring 
during his high school course and for two years of his col- 
lege career, why he never accomplished anything. The reply 
was that he was never allowed to do so. Sometime or other, 
if one is to learn to swim, he must be thrown into the water, 
and allowed to make the struggle alone. It is not likely to 
work any damage if some one is sufficiently interested to 
stand by and watch the struggle, and if drowning is im- 
minent, which is seldom the case, to extend the helping hand, 
but usually the swimmer learns because he has to, as the 
muskrat was said to learn to climb a tree. Having been 
given preliminary training he must be allowed to work out 
his own methods ; he may go under a few times, and take 
on a little water, but he learns in the end to swim. 

It is equally true of the college man. He must learn 
independence, and self-reliance, and self-direction in the same 
way that young people learn to swim. One of the greatest 
sources of satisfaction to a college officer is to see how few 
suffer real disaster in the learning, and when these unfor- 
tunate results do come the trouble is quite as often at home 
as elsewhere, and would very likely have occurred no mat- 
ter where the young student had been. 

It is quite likely that at college you will learn for the first 
time the value of money. Few high school boys know how 
much they cost, or have had a great deal 
Learn Value of experience in expending the money that 

of Money went for their support. If you are given 

a regular monthly allowance, as you should 
be given, it will very likely at first seem large to you; you 
will be a wise boy if you spend it with discrimination and 
care. The fellows who are most regularly "broke," or hard 
up, are not the ones usually, who have the smallest allow- 
ance. It will be well for you if you are required to keep an 
account of your expenditures, or if not required to do so, 
if you still keep this account for your own enlightenment 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 39 

and direction. The recording of your own financial indis- 
cretions will often keep you from further extravagance, and 
induce you to think twice before you part with your money. 
You will learn, or if you do not you should, that it often 
takes quite as much judgment and even genius to spend 
money wisely as to earn it. 

The tasks which must be accomplished in college are 
different, both in extent and purpose, from those which are 
exacted in high school. Perhaps nothing 
Work in is so painful a surprise to the college 

College Heavier freshman as that which comes to him on 
his first assignment of work. The number 
of problems you must solve, and the number of pages you 
must read seem appalling at first, or would seem so were it 
not for the fact that you will congratulate yourself that you 
have all the twenty-four hours at your disposal, and that 
there are eighteen weeks before the final examinations. You 
will learn in time, too, that it is not alone in the extent of 
the work which you are to cover that the college differs from 
the high school, but in the purpose to be accomplished in this 
work as well. You must think if you are to perform your 
tasks readily, and your thoughts must be your own. You 
must be independent; in short, you must be a man. You 
may ask advice if you wish; if you get into trouble there are 
those who will help you, but in large part the problems are 
yours, and they must be solved by you, in your own way, 
and in your own time. 

The matter of your associates is also a serious one. Your 
friends in your home community have seldom been con- 
sciously chosen, except perhaps within cer- 
Must Choose tain prescribed limits ; they have come 
Your Own largely from the families of the friends of 

Associates your father and mother. In college the 

case may be wholly different. The major- 
ity of the people with whom you are most intimately thrown 
you may very likely have never seen before; of their habits 
and their ancestors you can at first know but little. You 
should use caution, if you are to choose wisely. You will be 



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better off and safer in the end if you go slowly and look 
about you before you plunge into too fast friendships, either 
literally or figuratively. Your friends are most likely to be 
your making or your undoing. You have your opportunity 
to choose them consciously, and you should do this with a 
full knowledge of what your choice may mean. Good friends 
will lead you in the right direction, will help you to cultivate 
healthy, right habits, and will aid you in getting out of your 
college course the best there is in it. Ill chosen friends may 
easily defeat all the right purposes for which you have come 
to college. Now, as always, a man is judged by the company 
he keeps. 

All these problems which you will meet are difficult to 
solve. There is often home-sickness and discouragement, and 
sometimes, unfortunately, defeat; but in most cases the fresh- 
man can be relied upon. You know the hopes that are based 
on your success ; you know the disappointment that will come 
if you fail, and you will meet the situation manfully. 



Class Attendance 

One of the duties of the office of Dean of Men is to su- 
pervise the class attendance of the undergraduate men of the 
University. Absences are reported daily by the class instruct- 
ors and are recorded. When the absences of any member of 
the freshman or sophomore classes aggregate one-eighth of 
the whole number of semester recitations in a course, except- 
ing in cases of military and physical training, such student is 
dropped from that course. A junior, when absent one-fifth 
of the total number of recitations in a course, is dropped. 
When dropped, the student can be reinstated only by getting 
the consent of his instructor and of the Committee on At- 
tendance. If he is not reinstated, he receives a failure in 
the course at the end of the semester. No student will be 
allowed to withdraw from a course by the simple method of 
remaining away from class ; if he does this he will make him- 
self liable to discipline by the dean of his college. 

If you must be absent from class for a prolonged period, 
or if you wish to leave town, you should get an excuse from 
the office of the Dean of Men. Though your instructor is not 
permitted to excuse absence in any case, you may well make 
to him an explanation of your absence. If you have been 
sick or out of town for a good reason, he will probably be 
more likely to aid you in making up back work if he knows 
of that fact than he otherwise would. At the same time you 
must remember that absence from class for any reason, even 
for sickness, is harmful to your work and will be looked 
upon as such. You should attend every meeting of your 
class, if possible, and use your margin of cuts only for 
emergency cases. 

The regulation is often misunderstood to mean that every 
student is entitled to be absent a definite number of times 
without excuse. That meaning is not in the rule at all. 
Every student must go to all of his classes; if he does not 

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he becomes liable to discipline unless he has acceptable ex- 
cuses for each absence. The regulation means that when a 
student has been absent a certain number of times, his in- 
structor is given an opportunity of saying whether he may 
continue in class, whether he should make up work missed, 
or whether he is so far behind with his work that he cannot 
continue with any hope of passing the course. 

In Military you should have no "absences without leave" 
on your record. If you must be absent from a drill period, 
you must get an excuse from the office of the Dean of Men, 
and you should present this to the military office before the 
hour of drill, and at latest before Saturday noon of the week 
in which the absence occurs. If you cannot do this personally 
or by telephone, arrange with a friend to do it for you and be 
sure that he does it. It will pay you to read carefully the 
rules of the Military Department upon this and all other 
points, for a part of their instruction is in discipline, and you 
will suffer a penalty if you violate their rules. The Director 
of Physical Training will excuse students for sickness if they 
present an excuse from the office of the Dean of Men. 

As you grow older in your course you will discover that 
the temptations to cut class come more frequently and with 
apparently better reasons for doing so. As you become in- 
volved in a confusion of work to be done, you will be sorely 
tempted to stay away from one class to prepare the work for 
another, or to stay away to avoid a failure to recite. This is 
a bad policy; it can be compared to the world-old blunder of 
robbing Peter to pay Paul — a blunder committed only by peo- 
ple whose fortunes are at a low ebb. You will lose immeas- 
urably by it. It is far better to go to class, take the medicine 
of failure to recite, and reform afterward. Your increasingly 
active participation in outside interests will offer, also, many 
reasons why you might frequently cut class. Your fraternity, 
your religious work, your athletics, debating teams, or your 
attempts to earn money are some of the interests that may 
serve as seemingly good reasons why you may be irregular 
in class attendance. But even the best of these are poor ex- 
cuses. The most efficient men in college activities are usually 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 43 

those who do their classwork well. That man who fulfills 
all his obligations is the most valuable man to the interest 
with which he is allied. Y. M. C. A. men who flunk weaken 
their influence with other students ; fraternity men who are 
over-zealous in their fraternity work, often deprive their fra- 
ternity of their efforts by being forced to leave college; and 
many athletes betray their teams by failing to remain eligible. 
In this respect a burden of outside activities is as obnoxious 
as indolence. It can be shown that seventy-five per cent, of 
those who fail to pass in their courses have been careless or 
irregular in their class attendance. 

A real secret for success and happiness in college is 
regularity in appointments of all kinds, and not the least of 
these is the class period. 



Studies and Other Things* 

No one disputes the fact that for a young fellow in col- 
lege studies are the main thing. Father thinks so. When 
Son comes home for the spring vacation 
Studies the Father shows no feverish interest in his 

Main Thing chances for making the ball team or get- 

ting in w^ith the gang that names the can- 
didate for class president. His first question is, "How are 
you coming on with your studies?'' The neighbors, or at 
least such of them as hold recognized positions in the com- 
munity, think so. When at Christmas time you meet the pas- 
tor of the M. E. Church, or Goff who runs the grain elevator, 
or young Miller who is working in the Farmers' Loan Bank, 
he doesn't speak about your getting onto the scrubs in your 
first year, nor inquire if you've made a Greek letter frater- 
nity; the first thing he wants information on is your studies. 
It is the grade in Math. 9 and the Phi Beta Kappa pin that 
take Father's eye; and three home runs in the ball game 
with Chicago don't mean so much to the home community 
as an excerpt in the local paper from the letter which the 
Dean wrote to Father announcing that you'd made preliminary 
honors. The college faculty, little as their judgment may be 
worth, thinks so. No matter how beautifully you do the 
quarter mile, or how necessary you are to the success of the 
mandolin club, if you don't carry the required nine hours, 
or whatever the rule may demand, you must move on. So 
every one starting into the University of Illinois might just 
as well recognize at the outset that studies are the main 
thing, and make his plans accordingly. 

Every young man who begins a college course should do 
so with the idea that he is in college for the accomplishment 
of a definite work, and that it is to this 
College for that he must give his best endeavor. Too 

Work many fellows have the notion that in col- 

lege they are in preparation for an indefi- 
nite something coming later, and that until it arrives there is 

*Reprinted from the Illinois Magazine, October, 1910. 

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little necessity of agitation of any sort. They think of college 
life as a quiet, unaggressive waiting place where they may so- 
journ until an opening appears into which they are to drop. 
Until the proper time arrives they are to enjoy themselves as 
best they may and not let anything interfere with their en- 
joyment. If they could realize at once, as they usually come 
to see later, that their college work is for them the real 
business of life, and as serious a business as they will ever 
find, there would be fewer intellectual disasters. 

By far the largest percentage of failures in the University 
come not from the fact that men are stupid or dissipated, or 

because the amount of work they have to 
Failure Comes do is unreasonable, but because they do 
From not do their work seriously at first; they 

Procrastination are procrastinating and wake up too late 

to the fact that their daily work is the 
thing that they should have been at from the very beginning. 
If men took their work as seriously in October as they do in 
January or immediately before the finals, there would be a 
great many more honor men than there are. 

As a rule the task set for the average college student 
is a very moderate one, the amount and the character of the 

work required quite within the range of his 
College Work ability. I have known thousands of stu- 
for Average dents ; I have never known a dozen whose 

Student mental equipment was inadequate to the 

accomplishment of the work they had 
elected to do, if they had gone at it in the right way and 
when it was assigned. The time at the student's disposal is 
seldom if ever insufficient, unless he is trying to support him- 
self at the same time that he pursues his studies. In such a 
case this is not a normal situation, and he must choose be- 
tween conflicting interests. In spite of what I have said, 
however, in the Univefsity of Illinois usually one student in 
three fails more or less completely to carry the work for 
which he is registered. 



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Perhaps the fact that he has so much time in which to 
do his work is one of the very reasons why he fails to do 

it at all. There are many distractions, es- 
Work Regularly pecially at the beginning of a college 

course, — the games, the picture shows, fra- 
ternities, — that take his attention, and, very little apparent 
necessity for his at once doing the work assigned. It seems 
quite possible and at times even a virtue to let the tasks 
accumulate and to do them all in one noble effort. The result 
is that the time drifts by, the work piles up, until at last 
there comes an appalling awakening and a sudden realization 
of the fact that he is so far behind that there is little hope 
of his ever catching up. The first lesson you should learn is 
that your work is your business and that it must be attended 
to regularly or it will go into bankruptcy. 

Once get behind and the damage seems w^ell night irre- 
parable. I have often said, and might cite scores of illustra- 
tions, that what one does the first six 
Don't Get weeks of his college course may safely be 

Behind taken as indicative of what he will do dur- 

ing the remainder of the four (and fre- 
quently more) years. Unless at the very beginning he learns 
to work regularly, he will have a hard time to learn later. 

I have in mind a young fellow who made an excellent 
high school record. He came to college with perhaps a little 
too much confidence in his past, and as a consequence he 
worked little the first few weeks, depending upon a sprint 
at the end to carry him safely through. He lagged behind 
more than he had intended, and though he seemed to do his 
best when he came to a realization of his condition, he 
failed. And he has done so ever since. He has ability, but 
he seems to have lost the power of will to get to work. His 
case is similar to hundreds of others whom I have known. 
Regularity of work is absolutely necessary if one would get 
on, and this regularity must be learned at the beginning. It 
is a habit which one is not likely to learn if one has loafed 
for a while. It is hard to play the ant after one has long 
been cast in the role of the grasshopper. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 47 

It is not enough that a student work regularly, he must 
apply himself to his work with concentration of mind. The 

fellow who puts in the most hours is not 
Develop necessarily the best student. It is the one 

Concentration w^ho works regularly and who works hard 

as well — who has his whole mind on what 
he is doing — who will accomplish the most and who will get 
the best development out of his work. 

One of the poorest students with whom I have had to 
suffer was as regular in his work as the phases of the moon 

and as sure to be at his books as taxes, but 
Don't Work he worked too much, and he had no con- 

Too Much centration. He would go to sleep while 

writing his theme as readily as I did while 
reading it. He worked without method and without applica- 
tion, and so he failed to carry anything. The best student I 
have ever known — and by that I mean not only the man who 
was best in his studies, but in the ''other things" — put in very 
few hours at his work, but he studied every night and when 
he worked his whole mind was directed tow^ard what he 
wished to accomplish; he did not let anything come between 
him and what he was doing, and when he was through, he 
stopped and put his work away. He won through regularity 
and concentration, and these qualities are usually to be dis- 
covered when any man, student or otherwise, succeeds. 

But the ''other things" are important; only slightly less 
important in fact than the studies themselves. However 

much a man may be devoted to his work, 
Do Some he can not study all the time, and he 

"Other Things" should not be allowed to do so even if it 

were possible. As I remember my own 
college course and try to estimate, as it is impossible justly 
to do, its present worth to me, I am inclined to value most 
highly some of the things that were connected only remotely 
with the studies I was pursuing. These external things na- 
turally would have been of little value to me unless I had 
carried the work I was taking, for matters were so con- 
ducted in our home circle that a place would readily have 



48 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

been found for me on the farm had I shown any chronic in- 
aptitude in securing passing grades. But granting that ability, 
these "other things" seem to me of the greatest value. As a 
college instructor I can seldom find much excuse for the man 
who does not carry his college work, but the man who does 
not do more than this, no matter how high his scholastic 
standing may be, has missed a very large part of what every 
man should get from a college training. The college life is 
as much a community life as that which a man will ever 
live. In a college community no man can live to himself 
alone, or for himself alone, and profit greatly from the life. 
He has his own private and individual work to do, it is true, 
and he should do it; but he has also his obligations to his 
fellow stiidents and to the college community at large, and 
these he may not shirk. I heard a man once boast that dur- 
ing his college course he had never cut a class or seen an 
athletic contest. I am not sure that either fact was a virtue, 
and notwithstanding that he now wears a badge won by 
high scholastic standing in college, I think that his training 
might have been broader if his interests in college had, per- 
haps, been varied enough to make it desirable for him some- 
times to cut a class, or interesting to attend a ball game. A 
man*s studies should give him familiarity with ideas, and 
training with principles ; the "other things" in which he in- 
terests himself should make him acquainted with people, and 
furnish him some opportunity to get experience in the man- 
agement of erratic human beings. Whether the business 
which a young man finally takes up happens to be designing 
gas engines or preaching the gospel he will find daily oppor- 
tunities for the exercise of both sorts of training. 

It is a somewhat overworked and jaded joke that class 
valedictorians generally bring up as street car conductors or 

as hack drivers, not that I should like to 
Get Association underestimate the amount of intelligence 
With Men required successfully to perform the work 

of either one of these worthy offices — and 
though, perhaps, it is a joke there are too many instances of 
students of the highest scholastic standing filling the most 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 49 

commonplace positions simply from lack of initiative or 
ability to assume leadership. The lack of ability to handle 
men often keeps a young fellow from an opportunity to 
utilize his educational stock in trade. Social training in col- 
lege, then, is a very desirable thing, I do not mean by this 
statement, however, to encourage what is technically known 
in college as the *'fusser." There is little intellectual or 
business advantages in a college man's becoming an adept in 
pleasing young women unless he expects to be a man mil- 
liner or to run a soda fountation. What he needs is asso- 
ciation with men. 

There are a number of ways in which such an association 
may be cultivated. The ordinary method which simply for 

the sake of enjoyment takes a man out 
Do Not Omit among his fellows — and sometimes his fel- 
Social Life lows' sisters — is neither to be ignored nor 

worked too strenuously. Parties and pic- 
nics, and social calls, and long quiet strolls when the moon 
is full are in moderation, helpful, perhaps, but they should 
not be developed into a regular business. Even a good thing 
may be overdone. It is exceedingly desirable that a man 
should learn how to manage his hands and feet and tongue, 
but it is quite possible to devote too much time to acquiring 
such information. The man who omits all social life of this 
sort makes a mistake; the fellow who devotes a large part 
of his time to it is mushy. 

I have a strong belief in the value of athletics. It is 
true that some of the poorest students I have ever known 

have called themselves athletes, but I have 
Go In for known more good students than poor ones 

Athletics who have been prominent in athletic events. 

The man at the University of Illinois who 
has received the highest class standing of any student in 
twenty-five years was both an athlete and a musician. In 
the minds of many people either fact should have been suffi- 
cient to ruin him scholastically. The man who goes into 
athletics sanely has a good chance of developing a strong 
body; both tradition and necessity demands that he live a 



50 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

temperate healthy life, and his thinking powers and his 
ability to do mental work are likely to be stimulated by the 
regular exercise which he must take. It is true that few 
students ever do themselves damage from working too hard, 
but a great many develop chronic indigestion and general 
physical worthlessness from sitting in stuffy rooms and tak- 
ing no exercise. I should not go so far as to say that the 
athlete is usually a better student than the fellow who does 
not go in for such things, but he is usually a better all- 
around man than the other fellow, he has more stamina and 
endurance, and because of his symmetrical development he 
is likely to make a greater success in his profession. For 
this reason as well as for the pleasure and relaxation in it, 
every student who can should go in for some athletic game. 
A good many societies, in addition to the Greek letter 
fraternities, in the University of Illinois will bid for the stu- 
dent's time and attendance. Many very 
Not Bad to worthy people think these are wholly bad, 

Join Something and advise the young man entering college 
to steer clear of them all as he would 
dodge smallpox and the tax collector. All these organiza- 
tions have their uses, however, and in the majority of cases 
they seem to me good. Most men would be helped by join- 
ing a literary or a debating society both on account of the 
personal associations which they would cultivate, and for the 
training it would give them in speaking and writing. Tech- 
nical societies develop an interest in one's professional work, 
and social organizations bring individuals together in a sys- 
tematic way. The benefits and evils of the Greek letter fra- 
ternities have been much discussed by those who know about 
them and by those who have simply heard. At the Univer- 
sity they have on the whole been helpful. 

A man who has religious tendencies will find many ex- 
cellent opportunities to exercise these. The University Young 
Men's Christian Association is strong, and 
Y. M. C. A. other college religious organizations are 

Good every year multiplying and are constantly 

on the lookout for help and leadership. 
The local churches are eager for young fellows to take hold 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 51 

and help with the infinite number of things which are to be 
run. Such work offers an excellent chance for development 
and for widening one's acquaintance with men. Its danger 
lies in its very nature which makes it seem wholly good. 
Anomalous as the statement may seem, I have known plenty 
of men go intellectually to the bad through the dissipation of 

religious work. A college man's studies, as has been said, 

« 

furnish his real business, and whatever takes him away 
from these unduly whether it be a ball game, a dance, or a 
prayer meeting, is bad. 

Student political life furnishes striking opportunities for 
becoming acquainted with men. Nearly all class and organ- 
ization offices are elective, and the man 
Politics Gives who aspires to fill one of these must not 
Training only be fitted to do so, but he must have 

a wide acquaintance among his constitu- 
ents. The widening of a candidate's acquaintance develops 
in him resourcefulness, shrewdness, and a general knowledge 
of human nature. It gives him a training in marshalling 
men, in planning a campaign, in meeting unexpected situa- 
tions. It is one of the best experiences a man can have. 

All this has been to show that the four years you live at 
the University should mean something more than the mere 
acquaintance with facts, or the acquiring of information; it 
should give you a knowledge of men. But in getting this 
second sort of training you will usually have to choose be- 
tween several or many interests. If you elect to do one 
thing, you must usually omit the rest. A fellow may oc- 
casionally be president of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation and at the same time captain of the football team, 
but ordinarily one of these positions is quite sufficient to oc- 
cupy his leisure moments. If you get into the real life of 
the University community and do something to direct its 
current, 3^ou will usually be better fitted to meet the unex- 
pected in the more strenuous world into which you must 
go after college. 



College Activities 



Joining an organization, in the common parlance of col- 
lege students, is called "making" the organization. A man 
**makes" the football team, or the Glee Club. People ask, 
*'Did So-and-so *make' a fraternity?" And making some- 
thing or other seems to be so much talked about, both in 
college and out, that the freshman is likely to come to think 
that "to make" this or that club, or fraternity, or team, is 
quite the important thing in life. 

For some men it is so. Others, a large majority, after 
the first rush is over, go on with the daily task quite con- 
tentedly, "making" something if their talents or qualities 
bring them into notice, or doing pretty well "outside," as the 
case may be. This is especially so with regard to social and 
honorary organizations. 

Every man in the University, however, can belong to 
some organization having to do with student interests. What 
this organization is will depend in some cases upon the man's 
willingness to join, in others upon some special ability he 
may have, and in others, still, upon his personal popularity. 
A freshman should early ally himself with some organized 
interest in which he will associate with other men. No matter 
what may be the primary purpose of student organizations, 
the social value will be ever present. Men drawn together 
by a single common interest will associate also in other ways. 
This will be especially true of the freshmen who, without 
much previous acquaintance, must expect to make their first 
friends among the men who are brought close to them first. 

The healthy freshman will desire to make friends right 
away among his fellows. The man who holds himself aloof 
from the social side of the life before him, who keeps to his 
room, or spends his leisure hours alone, is abnormal. For 
him there is always a danger of falling into the bad mental 
or physical habits that form in men who are without the 

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corrective influence of social intercourse. The man who lives 
openly among his fellows improves by their spoken or un- 
spoken comment, and, what is more to the point, his bad 
qualities and bad tendencies become more easily known to 
those whose interest it is to correct truant tendencies. The 
boy who lives alone in a community where most boys inter- 
mingle joyously, hangs about himself a shroud of mystery 
which may or may not hide bad faults. What he is nobody 
knows unless some unusual thing happens to bring him sud- 
denly into the light. For the reason that the chance for 
helping him, if he needs help, is so much lessened, college 
officers fear for the welfare of the boy who lives too greatly 
by himself. 

The freshman who wants to make friends will choose 
the safest way if he offers to meet his fellowmen through 
interests that are organized. Student organizations are under 
constant, careful scrutiny, and must be conducted carefully, 
and with official approval. The men, then, whom one comes 
to know in their meetings are more likely to be responsible 
and helpful friends than those whom one meets at random 
on the streets, in billiard halls, or at boarding clubs. As the 
freshman grows older he will acquire a certain ability to 
judge men whenever he meets them, but, at first, he w^ill be 
happier if he depends upon the approved ways of making 
acquaintances. The so-called wise freshman, the man who 
relies entirely upon himself, is often the most easily spoiled 
or tricked. The truly wise freshm.an w^ill do as truly wise 
men in every place do, trust to the agencies that have the 
reputation for reliability. 

Of the organizations that are open to all men, the re- 
ligious organizations touch the greatest number. Much has 
been spoken and written about the part 
Religious that religion takes, or should take in the 

Organizations life of college men. The primary ques- 
tion of religion is one for each man to 
answer for himself. But the importance of the social part 
that religious organizations may take in the life of the col- 
lege student cannot be denied. A safe and sure way for the 



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incoming freshman to make worthy friends, and to get bene- 
ficial counsel, is through the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion, and the student societies of local churches. One need 
not avail himself of the privileges of these interests long, he 
may even leave them as soon as they have given him a work- 
ing acquaintance, but if he wishes a safe beginning, this is 
one of the ways to find it. 

The Young Men's Christian Association is the active 
men's religious organization of University students. The 
Association occupies a fine three-story 
The Young building just off the campus, which con- 

Men's Christian tains lounging and game rooms, bowling 
Association alleys, and dormitories to accommodate 

about eighty men. There is also a restau- 
rant, a lunch room, and a barber shop in the basement of the 
building. The Association holds religious meetings for men 
on Sunday afternoons, and to these as well as to the building 
all new men are welcomed. Courses in Bible study are given. 

The Association is most helpful to new students, and a 
new student can do no wiser thing than to go to the Asso- 
ciation Hall as soon as he arrives. Lists of rooms and board- 
ing places are posted, members of the Association meet all 
trains, assist students in finding satisfactory locations, and 
endeavor to make them feel at home. A regularly conducted 
employment bureau under general direction of the Univer- 
sity, has been of immense service in helping students to find 
work. 

The Young Women's Christian Association performs 
similar service for the young women of the University. 

The local churches in Champaign and Urbana make every 
effort to attract students, to engage them in the various forms 
of church work, and to give them a hearty 
The Churches welcome. Certain churches near the cam- 
pus, such as the Trinity Methodist Episco- 
pal church, the George McKinley Presbyterian church, the 
Unitarian church, and the University Place Christian church, 
are looked upon especially as "student" churches, and here 
the students attend in large numbers. Other Protestant de- 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 55 

nominations, as the Episcopalians, the Baptists, and the Con- 
gregationalists, employ ^'student pastors'* who give their entire 
time to calling upon students, making their acquaintance, and 
interesting them in religious work. Other religious denomi- 
nations support organizations. Phi Kappa fraternity is an 
organization of Roman Catholic students. Gregory Guild is 
made up of Baptist students, and the Episcopalian students 
support a chapter of the Brotherhood of Saint Andrew. Iv- 
rim is made up of Jewish students. The Presbyterian and 
the Episcopalian churches also each conducts a dormitory for 
young women. 

Quite different from the religious organizations in pur- 
pose, there are certain other organizations, open to all stu- 
dents, which will help the freshman to start right in becoming 
a normal part of college life which he has entered. 

The Illinois Union, organized in 1909, is an association 
of the men of the University for the promotion of college 

spirit and good fellowship. All men stu- 
The Illinois dents of the University are eligible to 

Union active membership upon the payment of 

the membership fee of twenty-five cents. 
The Student Council, which is composed of eight seniors 
and seven juniors elected by the members of the Union, has 
charge of certain student activities and hopes to become in 
time a general representative and advisory body for the stu- 
dents. The Union has for its present primary aim the build- 
ing of a clubhouse to serve as a general meeting place for 
the men students. The Union is gradually enlarging the 
scope of its activities, and membership in it is becoming more 
and more necessary to the students of the University. 

The Athletic Association has direct charge of all of the 
competitive athletics of the University, both intercollegiate 

and intramural. Membership in the Ath- 
The Athletic letic Association costs seven dollars and 

Association entitles one to admission to all of the 

athletic contests of the year. If one at- 
tends all, or even a majority, of the athletic games he will 
save money if he holds an Athletic Association coupon book. 



56 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

There are usually five intercollegiate football games at home, 
six or eight basketball games, six track meets, two swimming 
meets, and ten or twelve baseball games. The minimum ad- 
mission price to any of these is fifty cents. The proceeds 
from the sale of memberships in the Association and from 
admissions to the games go to pay the expenses of the 
various teams, for a large part of the salaries of the coaches, 
and for the upkeep of the playgrounds which the Athletic 
Association owns and controls for the use of intramural 
sports. The affairs of the Athletic Association are adminis- 
tered by a Board of Control, comprised of faculty, student, 
and alumni members. The student members are the man- 
agers of the various teams and the president of the Associa- 
tion. These student managers are selected by the Board of 
Control as a result of a period of competition Candidates 
for these various managerships and for president of the 
Association begin their term of competition in the beginning 
of the sophomore year as assistants to the managers ; at the 
end of the sophomore year two candidates are selected for 
competition for each position during the junior year; and at 
the end of the junior year the Board of Control selects one 
of the two candidates for each membership and for presi- 
dent of the Association. These positions in the Athletic As- 
sociation are greatly sought after and are among the first 
honors possible to undergraduates. 

In all of the departments of the University there are a 
number of clubs which are auxiliary to the courses of study. 
These clubs hold regular meetings in which 
Professional subjects of particular interest to the mem- 

Clubs bers are discussed, and most of them dur- 

ing the year invite to speak before them 
men of some prominence from the outside. There is also a 
pleasing social side to most of them. Every freshman should 
early become interested in one of these clubs, and make a 
strong effort to become active in its work. It is by extend- 
ing one's interests in this way that a general acquaintance 
of more than temporary value is formed. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 57 

The following is a list of the clubs that are open to men 
students : 

Liberal Arts and Sciences — 

Le Cercle Francais (French) 

Romance Journal Club 

El Circulo Espanol (Spanish) 

Der Deutsche Verein (German) 

The Scribblers' Club (English) 

The Classical Club 

The History Club 

English Journal Club 

The Commercial Club 

Socialist Study Club 

The Oratorical Association (Oratory and Debating) 

The Pen and Brush Club (Art) 

Philological Club 

The Scandinavian Club 

Political Science Club 

Ceramics Club 

Zoological Club 

Botanical Club 

Chemical Club 

Geological Journal Club 

Mathematical Club 
Engineering — 

Architects' Club 

Railwa}^ Club 

Civil Engineers' Club 

Electrical Engineering Society 

Mining Engineering Society 

Mechanical Engineering Society 

Physics Club 
Agriculture — 

Agricultural Club 

Landscape Club 

Horticultural Club 

Hoof and Horn Club 

Floriculture Club 



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Law — 

Van Twiller Law Club 
Witenagemot Law Club 
John Marshall Law Club 
Fuller Law Club 

In addition to these there are local branches of a number 
of general societies for the development of learning that are 
open to the proficient members of the upper classes. 

For the freshman who has special ability along certain 
lines, there are open a large number of organizations and 
activities. The advantages and disadvantages of this kind of 
interest have been discussed in a previous chapter.* Briefly, 
the danger lies in participation in too many kinds of activi- 
ties. The man who is content with an active interest in a 
single legitimate field outside of his regular work will 
ordinarily be better off than either the man who keeps to his 
studies constantly, or the other who goes in for everything. 
These organizations without regard to their primary purposes 
have always a secondary value as social mediums. Many a 
boy, otherwise backw^ard, has come out into a healthy com- 
panionship because he could play football well, or blow a 
horn, or maybe, develop a nose for news on a student paper. 

Organizations which call for special ability are athletic, 
musical, journalistic, literary, and dramatic. Membership is 
usually gained only after a period of probation during which 
the applicant's merits are tested. 

Fully one-third of the men students of the University 
engage actively in competition for places on one or another 
of the many athletic teams. To become a 
Athletics member of a squad trying out for an ath- 

letic team is easy, and usually entails noth- 
ing more than appearing for practice, and becoming ac- 
quainted with the coach in charge. 



♦Studies and Other Things. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 59 

Intercollegiate competition in athletics is maintained by 
the University of Illinois with all of the other universities 
of the Western Conference ; namely, Chi- 
Intercollegiate cago, Northwestern, Minnesota, Wisconsin, 
Athletics Iowa, Indiana, Purdue, and Ohio. Prac- 

tice competition is engaged in to a limited 
extent with minor colleges near by. At Illinois teams are 
entered in football, baseball, track, basketball, swimming, 
gymnastics, fencing, wrestling, cross country running, tennis, 
and golf. Freshmen may not compete in 'Varsity competi- 
tion, and so in each line of sport a freshman squad is main- 
tained. 

Competition for places upon the various teams is very 
keen, and only men of exceptional ability, who are willing to 
train consistently, and who can keep up with their scholar- 
ship, make the regular places. The squads are always large, 
however, and few men participate in more than one branch of 
sport, so that there is an opportunity for a relatively large 
number of men to get the benefits of the training. The best 
athletes of the teams have usually been developed under the 
coaches from rather inexperienced material, and any freshman 
who has ability at all will be given a big chance to show what 
his ability may amount to. 

The man who would gain a place on the teams must be 
prepared to make some strong sacrifices before he can realize 
his ambition. He must give to his training a rather large 
part of every afternoon in the season of his sport, he must 
regulate his habits to strict standards, he must do his scholas- 
tic w^ork a little better than the average, and he must develop 
a personality that will make him an unselfish, trustworthy 
teammate. 

In all of the lines of 'Varsity competition, there are 
maintained, also, class teams representing the classes in the 

various colleges. This class of competition 
Class Athletics is popular, and attracts a larger number of 

competitors than the 'Varsity teams do. 
Not infrequently a player gains so much skill from his expe- 



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Hence on class squads that he is transferred directly to 'Var- 
sity teams. 

Although the organization of athletic teams is somewhat 
less definite than that of social and literary clubs, nevertheless 
the means employed and purposes served are much the same. 
A man who belongs to the freshman engineering baseball 
team, for instance, has become a part of an organization that 
gives him a common purpose to serve, common friends to 
cultivate, and a certain mark of distinction among his fellows 
in much the same way as membership in a social club does. 

Competition for places on the various University publi- 
cations is in most cases open to freshmen. To gain a place 
as a member of the staff of one of these 
Publications publications, demands natural ability to 

write well, regular and persistent work, 
and good scholarship. If one has the time and energy to 
spare to journalistic work, he will find a satisfactory reward 
in working for the college papers. The term of apprentice- 
ship, however, is long and, sometimes, tiresome, and its re- 
wards consist very largely in the practical experience received, 
and the companionship of men who are active in conducting 
the affairs of undergraduate, and general University interests. 

The college daily newspaper is edited and managed by 
students. The first publication by the students of the Uni- 
versity appeared in November, 1871, and 
The was called the Student. It was published 

Daily Illini once a month. Two years later the name 

was changed to the Illini^ and shortly the 
publication appeared twice a month. As the number of stu- 
dents increased, and as student interests multiplied the time 
of publication became more frequent. From 1894 to 1899 it 
was published weekly; from 1899 to 1902 it appeared three 
times a week, and since 1902 it has been conducted as a daily 
with six issues a week. 

The editor, business-manager, and bookkeeper of the 
Illini are now chosen by a Board of Trustees composed of 
three members of the Faculty appointed by the Council of 
Administration, and four students — two juniors and two 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 6l 

seniors — elected by the student body. Candidates for appoint- 
ment to office on the Illini staff must when they enter upon 
the duties of their office be seniors in full standing and must 
previously have maintained an average class standing of not 
less than eighty per cent. 

The other members of the editorial and business staff 
are appointed by the editor and the business manager with 
the approval of the Board of Trustees. The profits which 
accrue from the publication of the Illini, with the exception 
of a small percentage which is set aside for equipment and 
as a contingent fund, are divided in an agreed-upon propor- 
tion among the men composing the editorial and business 
staffs of the paper. 

Leaving out of consideration the financial remuneration 
which each student receives, the benefits to be derived from 
a business or an editorial connection with the paper are great. 

The Illini is published on every day of the week except- 
ing Monday. 

The Illio, the University year book, is published by the 
junior class and is issued near the close of the college year. 
The first year book was issued in 1882 by 
The Illio the sophomore class under the title of the 

Sophograph, and continued to appear an- 
nually for the next eleven years. The class of 1895 did not 
issue an annual in its sophomore year, but waited until the 
junior year bringing out a year book under the name of the 
Illio, by which title the year book still is known. 

The editor-in-chief and business manager of the Illio 
are selected by the Illini Board of Trustees in much the same 
manner as the editor and business manager of The Daily Illini 
are selected. Candidates for these positions enter a period of 
competition as assistants during their sophomore year to the 
editor and business manager of the Illio of the class ahead 
of them. Candidates at the time of their election must be 
in full sophomore standing, and must have carried their class 
w^ork with an average of not less than eighty per cent. Dur- 
ing their term of office they must carry enough work to 



62 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

give them full senior standing at the end of the year. 

The other members of the editorial and business staff 
are appointed by the editor-in-chief and business manager. 
The principal positions are much sought after not only be- 
cause of the experience which they furnish, but because of 
the profits which go largely to the two main officers. The 
positions are exacting in their demands and difficult to fill; 
they should not be sought except by superior students ahead 
of their course. The Illio is published at some time during 
the month of May each year. 

The Illinois Magazine, the only strictly literary under- 
graduate publication, appeared first in 1902 under the patron- 
age of the English Club. Since that time 
The Illinois it has had an irregular existence. At vari- 

Magazine ous times it has suspended publication for 

want of financial support, and for some 
two or three years it was the particular protege of the Scrib- 
bler's Club, an organization of undergraduates interested in 
writing. During recent years the magazine has had a some- 
what independent existence and has been a very creditable 
publication. The editor and the business manager must be 
members of either the junior or the senior class, and must 
have an average class standing of not less than eighty per 
cent. 

The Illinois Agriculturist is a monthly magazine pub- 
lished by the Agricultural Club. It has been issued for the 
past fifteen years. The editor and business 
The manager may be members of the junior 

Agriculturist class, but in point of fact they are regular- 

ly chosen at the end of the junior year. All 
members of the Agricultural Club are entitled to vote. Only 
students who have attained an average class standing of not 
less than eighty per cent, are eligible for office. The other 
members of the editorial and business staff are appointed by 
the editor and business manager. Juniors who have served 
creditably on the staff for a year are most likely to secure 
the principal positions for the senior year. 

The Technograph, the technical journal of the College 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 63 

of Engineering, has been published for the past twenty-four 

years. Until 1910-1911 but one issue a 
The year was attempted, but at this time a re- 

Technograph organization was made with the intention 

of publishing the Techno graph quarterly. 
The Technograph is managed by a board consisting of one 
junior and one senior elected from each of the following so- 
cieties : the Architects' Club, the Civil Engineers' Club, the 
Electrical Engineering Society, the Mechanical Engineering 
Society, the Mining Engineering Society, and the Chemical 
Club. This board elects three members from the engineering 
student body at large, all these elections occurring before the 
last Monday in March. The student board elects a president, 
a vice-president, and a secretary. It is also the business of 
the board to elect an editor-in-chief, a business manager, 
and an assistant business manager who shall be the treas- 
urer. Ninety-five per cent, of the profits, if there should be 
any, go to these three, the remaining five per cent, being 
kept for a contingent fund. The officers of the publication 
must have attained an average scholastic standing of not less 
than eighty-five per cent, during the year preceding their 
election. 

The Siren is the humorous publication published by the 
students. It has about eight issues each year, published at 

irregular intervals. The editor and busi- 
The Siren ness manager are elected by the members 

of the staff. Candidates for positions on 
the staff must show some talent for humorous writing and 
drawing. 

A student and faculty directory is published each year 
about the first of November by two students, usually mem- 
bers of the senior class, selected by the 
Student's Dean of Men. This directory contains the 

Directory local addresses of all members of the 

faculty and of all students. In addition 
the cojlege course, year, and home address of each student is 
given. Students when registering should be careful to give 
their local addresses correctly, and if they change them dur- 
ing the year they should report the change at once to the 
office of the Registrar or of the Dean of Men. 



64 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

This directory is distributed free of charge by the local 
business firms whose advertisements appear in it, and is 
most valuable to any one connected with the University. 

Standards in all of the musical organizations are high, 
and applicants must be very well qualified to be admitted on 
first trials. Membership in any of them, 
Musical Clubs however, will be found worth while. 

The Military Band, officially a part of the University 
regiment, is one of the most popular and most efficient or- 
ganizations in the University. Competition 
The for places in it is very keen, and in most 

Military Band cases membership in it is gained only after 
repeated trials. Membership in the Band 
requires the sacrifice of much time in rehearsals, drill periods, 
special occasions, and concerts, but the experience and train- 
ing gained is very valuable. Credit for Military drill is given 
to the freshman and sophomore members and remission of 
the tuition fees in the University to the junior and senior 
members. The instruments are furnished by the University, 
and the instruction is under the direction of the Instructor 
in Band Instruments. Two home concerts are given each 
season, and a short concert trip is made to nearby cities. 

A second Band of sixty members alternates with the 
regular Band in Military drill service, and appears occasion- 
ally at games. It receives the same instruction as does the 
first Band. 

The Glee and Mandolin Clubs, limited in membership to 
about forty members, are composed of students of some ability 
either in vocal or instrumental music. 
The Glee and Membership in them is decided by compe- 
Mandolin Clubs tition early in the year. The clubs give 
two or three home concerts and make an 
annual concert trip to the larger cities of the state. About 
two hours a week regularly are spent in rehearsals, and more 
in the concert season. The instruction is given under the di- 
rection of student leaders under the general supervision of 
the Director of the School of Music. 

In the early years of the University the literary societies. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 65 

of which there were two for men and one for women, were 
the leading social and literary organiza- 
Literary tions among the students. The rivalry be- 

Societies tween the two men's societies was present 

not only in literary affairs, but also in stu- 
dent politics and in social matters. The feeling between 
them was always intense and often bitter. The control of 
The mini was their chief bone of contention. In the year 
1872-73 the two societies, Philomathean and Adelphic, were 
given the rooms in University Hall that they have since con- 
tinued to occupy. In 1877 the Philomathean Society en- 
gaged a lecturer from the outside to address the students of 
the University, and from this start the Star Lecture Course 
was developed. In 1905 The Ionian Society, the third men's 
literary society, was formed. In recent years, since the 
growth of organizations of a purely social nature, the 
literary societies have limited their social activity to occa- 
sional parties. 

Each society has a membership of from thirty to forty 
members ; all undergraduates who show a talent and interest 
in literary lines are eligible. The meetings are held weekly 
and consist of programs of oratorical, declamatory, musical, 
extempore, and debating numbers. Each society, usually in 
conjunction with one of the women's literary societies, pre- 
sents an annual play in the Auditorium. The Star Lecture 
Course is under the direction of the Adelphic and Philoma- 
thean Societies. Rivalry among the societies is still keen, but 
it is now confined to annual inter-society debates, and ora- 
torical and declamatory contests. 

Considerable activity is shown among the students of the 
University in amateur dramatics. During the year the literary 
societies and the classes in dramatic read- 
Dramatics ing present plays of one kind or another. 
There are two organizations devoted ex- 
clusively to dramatics — the Mask and Bauble Club and the 
Illinois Union Opera Company. The former is composed of 
both men and women students and confines its efforts to 
drama. The latter is composed exclusively of men and pro- 
duces each year a comic opera. Places in the casts of the 



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various productions are gained mainly by competition. The 
Post-exam Jubilee and the various class social gatherings 
present programs composed largely of dramatic sketches of a 
more or less farcical nature. 

In college, as in the world outside, there are many or- 
ganizations which a man may not express a willingness to 

join until invited. These University or- 
Social and ganizations group themselves mainly as fol- 

Honorary lows: (i) The national social fraternity 

Organizations group, comprising local chapters of college 

fraternities having a national organization; 
(2) local clubs, much like local chapters of national fraterni- 
ties, but having no national organization; (3) honorary so- 
cieties, membership in which is given as a reward for excel- 
lence of achievement along certain lines. 

The history of national Greek letter fraternity organiza- 
tions at the University goes back to a rather indefinite date 
in the fourth or fifth year after the found- 
Fraternities ing of the Illinois Industrial University. 
In June, 1876, the Board of Trustees first 
officially recognized the existence of a chapter of a national 
fraternity by passing a resolution which condemned the for- 
mation of such societies and appealed to the students to dis- 
countenance their organization. Apparently this resolution 
was not effective, for in 1881 a chapter of another national 
fraternity was organized among the students. Later the Fac- 
ulty passed a set of rules providing that no student should 
enter the University until he had pledged himself not to join 
a fraternity, and that no student should graduate until he had 
certified that he had not belonged to any while in the Uni- 
versity. In August, 1890, the Board of Trustees passed the 
following resolution : "That the pledge heretofore required 
for candidates for entry to the University in regard to college 
fraternities be omitted, and that the subject of these fratern- 
ities be referred to the Committee on Rules." Since that 
time fraternities have been permitted to exist in the Univer- 
sity with the consent and approval of the Board of Trustees. 

At present twenty-six national Greek letter social frater- 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 67 

nities for men are represented by chapters in the University. 
Besides these, four professional and honorary Greek letter 
fraternities and the Masonic fraternity, Acacia, exist partly 
as social organizations. In addition to the chapters of na- 
tional fraternities there are seven local fraternities whose 
purposes and activities are quite similar to those of the na- 
tional organizations. 

NATIONAL FRATERNITIES 

(social) 

Established 
Founded at Illinois 

Acacia 1904 1906 

Alpha Delta Phi 1832 1912 

Alpha Sigma Phi 1907 1908 

Alpha Tau Omega 1865 i895 

Beta Theta Pi 1839 1902 

Chi Phi 1854 1912 

Chi Psi 1841 1912 

Delta Kappa Epsilon 1844 1904 

Delta Tau Delta 1859 1872 

Delta Upsilon 1834 1905 

Kappa Sigma 1869 1881 

Phi Delta Theta 1848 1894 

Phi Gamma Delta 1848 1897 

Phi Kappa ,....1886 1912 

Phi Kappa Psi 1852 1904 

Phi Kappa Sigma 1850 1892 

Phi Sigma Kappa 1873 1910 

Psi Upsilon 1833 1910 

Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1856 1898 

Sigma Chi 1855 1881 

Sigma Nu 1869 1902 

Sigma Pi 1909 1909 

Tau Kappa Epsilon 1899 1912 

Theta Delta Chi 1848 1907 

Zeta Beta Tau 1898 1912 

Zeta Psi 1847 1909 



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LOCAL FRATERNITIES 

Founded 

Acanthus 1911 

Chi Beta 1906 

Delta Omega 191 1 

Ilus 1907 

Iris 1908 

Pi Omicron 1911 

Psi Delta 1912 

Membership in these chapters varies in numbers from 
twenty-four to thirty-two. Any undergraduate in the Uni- 
versity is eligible to membership in them, but he may not 
express a willingness or desire to join until he is asked. The 
selection of new members is usually made at the beginning 
of the year and largely from the incoming freshmen. During 
this period of ''rushing/* as the practice is called, the various 
fraternities invite certain new students to their houses and in 
other ways pay them attentions in order that a mutual ac- 
quaintance may be formed in which both parties may deter- 
mine the desirability of a union. Freshmen may be pledged 
at once, but may not be initiated until they have passed eleven 
hours of University work. 

Some points which fraternity members usually consider 
in prospective members are congenialty, appearance, previous 
reputation and standing, manners and accomplishments, proba- 
bility of remaining in college four years, of becoming promi- 
nent in college activities, and of becoming a desirable alumnus 
of the chapter. Inquiry is usually made as to the social stand- 
ing of a man's family and as to whether or not he is inde- 
pendent in a financial way, though every chapter has a num- 
ber of members who are earning a part or all of their ex- 
penses. Prospect of good scholarship is universally wel- 
comed, but, unfortunately, is often not insisted upon. Inas- 
much as the fraternities are the leaders in the social life of 
the University, a clever social behavior is desirable in a 
prospective member, but congenialty of a possibly rough, but 
attractive sort will often take the place of the other quality. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 69 

Tendencies to boast or to be "smart," immorality, sporting 
inclinations, irresponsibility, sullenness, pessimism, and ef- 
feminacy are some of the qualities that will keep one from 
being invited to join a fraternity. As the different chapters 
vary in types and ideals so they vary in the emphasis they 
may put upon certain of these good and bad qualities. 

Membership in a college fraternity is prized by college 
students in general and is usually a source of pleasure and 
help, but it is by no means essential to one's happiness, promi- 
nence, or achievement of worthy college honors. Every chap- 
ter exacts a great deal of attention and energy from its mem- 
bers, and a freshman should not agree to become a member 
of such an organization unless he is sure that he will not 
only not be handicapped by such a sacrifice, but that also he 
will receive positive good from it. By joining a fraternity 
one cannot immediately leap into social and political promi- 
nence, nor has he earned an honor that he can keep without 
the necessity of hard work, upright habits, forethought, 
and acceptance of responsibility. No one can be helped by 
joining a fraternity that has nothing to offer besides the right 
to wear its badge. In considering this question it is well to 
consult an unprejudiced, well-informed adviser, for the ad- 
vice that is intelligently given will vary with circumstances. 
Not all freshmen are fitted to be fraternity men, and many 
freshmen would do well in one fraternity and be injured in 
another. One usually gains from joining a good fraternity, 
but the mistakes made by those who have pledged themselves 
hurriedly are far more frequent than those made after de- 
liberation. No one will lose the chance to join a fraternity 
by taking sufficient time to consider his invitation. In the 
end, each must determine the course pretty largely for him- 
self, and must remember that in so doing he is dealing with 
his own happiness and welfare for the period of his college 
course. 

The fraternity house is a college home. Fraternity houses 
are usually well governed, pleasantly arranged, and need not 
handicap their members in study. If, however, the house is 
not a home, but a noisy clubroom, or a boarding house, ill- 



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kept and full of hidden skeletons, one can not live a very 
happy, or beneficial college life there. The fraternity house 
reflects very accurately the ideals, training, and habits of its 
members, and it is in their power to determine what these 
shall be. The expense of living in a fraternity is usually 
about a third more than living as a non-fraternity man; 
though in most cases it need be little more. The necessary 
expenditures are usually not much more, but the demands 
for more or less unnecessary expenditures are much greater. 
Fraternity men are not quite so good students as the 
average, though the majority of them have creditable rec- 
ords. Recently the fraternities have been laying greater 
stress on scholarship and have raised their average to a 
point only slightly below the general university average for 
men. The following table shows the average of fraternity 
men as compared with the general average: 

1909-1910 1910-1911 

1st. sem. 2nd. sem. 1st. sem. 2nd. sem. 

General average 81.11 81.31 80.31 82.42 

Fraternity average 78.91 79.68 78.68 79.63 

1911-1912 1912-1913 

1st. sem. 2nd. sem. 1st. sem. 2nd. sem. 

General average 81.71 82.34 81.47 82.11 

Fraternity average 79.28 80.48 80.67 81.23 

Part of the improvement in the fraternity average re- 
cently is due to the introduction of the practice of publish- 
ing each semester the ranking of the fraternities on a basis 
of scholarship averages. A part of this improvement is also 
due to the rule, recently introduced, requiring freshmen to 
pass in eleven hours of their work before being intitiated into 
a fraternity. 

In the first semester of 1910-1911, before the introduc- 
tion of this rule, the fraternity freshmen averaged 80.57; for 
the first semester of 1913-1914 the fraternity freshmen aver- 
aged 82.29. In the first semester of 1913-1914, the fraternity 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN ^\ 

upperclassmen averaged 80.32 ; and the non-fraternity freshmen 
averaged 81.19. These results would seem to indicate that 
the average freshman is not likely to be handicapped, so far as 
studies go, by membership in a fraternity. 

The effect which fraternity membership has upon schol- 
arship is shown in the following table, in which the percent- 
age of grades within specified limits is given: 

Non-Fraternity Fraternity 
90-100 9% 7% 

80- 90 58% 54% 

70- 80 27% 34% 

0- 70 6% 5% 

These results indicate that a slightly higher percentage 
of non-fraternity men than fraternity men have grades above 
90, but that this margin is offset by a slightly larger per- 
centage below the passing grade. 

Fraternity men, however, average lower than non-fra- 
ternity men, apparently because they are more content with 
grades just above passing, 70 to 80, than are the non-fra- 
ternity men. This is probably due to the fact that fratern- 
ity men meet more temptations to let outside affairs interfere 
with study than do other students. 

The fraternities as organizations constantly do a great 
deal toward supporting the worthy interests of the University 
and in serving to direct student activity along desirable lines. 
In a good many ways fraternity men are more easily reached 
and influenced by the Faculty than non-fraternity men, due, 
perhaps, to the fact that they are organized and to the mutual 
interest that most fraternity men take in the welfare of their 
fellow members. 

The freshman who has been given an invitation to join 
a fraternity should ask the following questions : First of all, 
am I likely to find its members congenial and helpful to me 
during the four years of my college life? Are they the kind 
of men I should like to take into my home? What is the 
local reputation of their chapter? What is their scholarship 



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average? What is the chapter's financial condition? What 
is the national reputation of their fraternity? In seeking 
answers to these questions, it will be wise to consult un- 
prejudiced persons of some fair degree of familiarity with the 
points in question. Baird's Manual of American College Fra- 
ternities will be found helpful in becoming familiar with the 
national reputation of the various fraternities. 

The following fraternities are honorary in their nature, 
that is, in each case membership is attained only by excep- 
tionally high scholarship and marked 
Honorary ability. High scholarship alone, however, 

Fraternities will not always secure a student's election. 

Phi Beta Kappa (Literary and Classical) 

Sigma Xi (Scientific) 

Tau Beta Pi (Engineering) 

Alpha Zeta (Agricultural) 

Order of the Coif (Law) 

Membership in these organizations is prized very highly 
and is a recognized mark of exceptional ability. Fewer than 
one-fifth of the graduating class are elected to these honors. 
Inasmuch as the candidate's scholarship record for the en- 
tire term of his college course is considered, the freshman 
who would set his ambition on attaining to these honors must 
begin early. 

Ma-wan-da is the one honorary senior society among men 
students. Election to membership in it occurs at the end of 
the junior year. Twenty or more juniors 
Ma-wan-da considered most worthy of membership in 

it on the basis of their personality, college 
activities, and popularity, in the judgment of the retiring 
senior members are elected for active membership during 
their senior year. 

There are a number of professional fraternities whose 
members are selected from special departments of study, 
partly on the basis of their ability and 
Professional scholarship, and partly on the basis of their 

Fraternities personal qualities. Membership in these or- 

ganizations is usually open early in the col- 
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houses in which their members live. These professional fra- 
ternities are as follows: 

Phi Lambda Upsilon (Chemical) 

Alpha Chi Sigma (Chemical) 

Phi Delta Phi (Law) 

Phi Alpha Delta (Law) 

Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering) 

Scarab (Agricultural) 

Gamma Alpha (Graduate) 

Triangle (Engineering) 

Alpha Gamma Rho (Agricultural) 

Beta Gamma Sigma (Commercial) 

Kappa Delta Pi (Educational) 

Sigma Delta Chi (Journalistic) 

Delta Sigma Rho (Debating and Oratory) 

Scabbard and Blade (Military) 

Foreign students of the University have organized two 
clubs, both of which have houses in which their members 
live, and both of which are affiliated with national organiza- 
tions. 

The Illinois Chapter of the Association of Cosmopolitan 
Clubs was organized in 1906. Its purpose is to bring together 
the students who come to the University 
Cosmopolitan from different nations. It numbers among 
Club its members almost all of the foreign stu- 

dents of the University; in addition, about 
half of its members are Americans. It maintains a club- 
house, which is a centre of interest for foreign students. The 
activities of the club in presenting entertainments in which 
peculiar national manners, games, and costumes are shown, 
are very interesting to the other students. 

The Chinese Students' Club has a membership of fifty- 
five. The club is very active in further- 
The Chinese ing the interests of Chinese students in 

Students' Club the University and elsewhere. The fra- 
ternal aspect of its work is important. 
There are a number of clubs, more or less active, com- 



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posed of students who come from certain localities, such as 
the Easterners* Club, the Shomeez Club 
Miscellaneous (Missouri), the Egyptian Club (Southern 
Clubs Illinois), the Dixie Club, the Hoosiers' 

Club, etc. These organizations do a cer- 
tain part in making life more pleasant for students who come 
to the University from distant localities. 

The University is growing so rapidly and the student 
body is becoming so large that the problem of unifying the 
students in any beneficial way is becoming a very difficult one. 
Undoubtedly the student organizations contribute a great deal 
to the handling of this problem, and it seems not at all un- 
desirable that every student in the University should be allied 
with some organization that is in turn allied with the best 
interests of the University. Each freshman, at any rate, can 
make no great mistake by casting his lot with some reliable 
University organization and accepting what help it has to 
offer him, until he becomes well enough acquainted with 
college life to find his way easily himself. 



Class Organization 



The first meeting of the men of the freshman class oc- 
curs in the Auditorium on Wednesday afternoon following 
registration, at four o'clock. The President of the University 
and the Dean of Men make short addresses at this time which 
every man will be helped by hearing. 

The first meeting for class organization is held usually 
in Room 228, Natural History Building, about the first week 
in October. This meeting is usually in charge of some officer 
of the Students' Union, under whose rules the election is 
held. In recent years all class elections are held at the same 
time, the third Friday in October, under the direction of the 
Students' Union, these elections being preceded by primaries, 
on the second Friday in October, for the preliminary choos- 
ing of candidates for the various class offices. 

The class constitution should be carefully considered 
because it is the body of regulations under which a class 
must work during the four years of un- 
Class dergraduate life. The conditions of class 

Constitution membership should be exactly stated, the 

control of class finances should be consid- 
ered, and the time of elections and the regulations concerning 
the eligibility of candidates for class officers should be exactly 
defined. An illustration of a class constitution is given 
below. 

CONSTITUTION OF THE CLASS OF 1917 

OF THE 

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

ARTICLE I NAME 

The name of the organization shall be the Class of 1917. 

ARTICLE II OFFICERS 

Section 1. The officers of the organization shall consist of a 
president, a vice-president, a secretary, a treasurer, a sergeant-at-arms, 
and an athletic manager. 

Section 2. All elections (except special elections) shall be held 
according to the rules of the Illinois Students' Union. 

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Section 3. When an office is vacant for any reason, the highest 
remaining officer shall declare the office vacant and order an election to 
fill the vacancy. 

Section 4. The president shall preside at all meetings of the 
class, shall enforce an observance of the Constitution and By-Laws, and 
shall appoint committees not otherwise provided for. 

Section 5. In the absence of the president, the vice-president 
held, and shall issue notice of all special meetings. 

Section 6. The secretary shall keep a record of all meetings 
held, and shall issue notice of all special meetings. 

Section 7. The duties of the treasurer shall be to receive and 
have charge of all money belonging to the organization, to deposit this 
in an approved bank of Champaign or Urbana unless otherwise di- 
rected; and in the name of the organization to pay all bills by checks 
signed by himself. At the last regular meeting of each semester, the 
out-going treasurer shall submit a complete report of all receipts and 
expenditures of his time. This report must have been approved by the 
Auditing Committee of the University of Illinois before being submit- 
ted to the class, and must be signed by the chairman of that committee. 
At the first regular meeting of each semester the incoming treasurer 
must report all liabilities and funds received by him from his prede- 
cessor. 

Section 8. The sergeant-at-arms shall act as doorkeeper, distribute 
blanks, and with the assistance of such deputies as he may appoint, 
shall preserve order at all meetings. 

Section 9. An officer may resign upon presenting good reasons 
and upon the consent of a majority of the members voting at any 
meeting. 

ARTICLE III MEMBERSHIP 

Section 1. All students of the University who have less than 
thirty credits at the beginning of the year may be members of the 
Class of 1917. 

Section 2. No individual may be a member of the Class of 1917 
who votes in any other class election during the current semester. 

article IV — insignia 

Section 1. The colors of the class shall be blue and white. 
Section 2. The motto of the class shall be . 

article V — class dues 

Section 1. The regular semester dues shall be twenty-five cents, 
and shall be paid before voting at any general election. 

Section 2. Assessments shall be levied by consent of the majority 
of the members present at any meeting. 

ARTICLE VI amendments 

Section 1. Amendments to this Constitution and By-Laws may be 
made by a two-thirds vote of all members present at any meeting. 

Section 2. Each amendment must have been discussed at a pre- 
vious meeting. 



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BY-LAWS 

ARTICLE I 

Section 1. Regular meetings must be held at least two weeks 
before each election. 

Section 2. Three days* notice must be given before the date of 
any special meeting or election. 

article II 

Section 1. A quorum shall consist of forty-five members. 

ARTICLE III 

Section 1. The order of business shall be as follows: 

1. Minutes of previous meeting. 

2. Report of committees. 

3. Report of treasurer. 

4. General business. 

a. Old or unfinished business. 

b. New business. 

ARTICLE IV 

Section 1. Nominations for officers shall be made in the general 
class primaries held on the second Friday in October under the super- 
vision of the Illinois Union. 

article v 
Section 1. Roberts' Rules of Order shall be the parliamentary 
guide of the class of 1917, except where it conflicts with the Class 
Constitution or By-Laws. 

amendment i 

Section 1. The general athletic manager shall be the representa- 
tive of this class on the Board of Class Athletics and shall hold office 
one year. 

Section 2. The team managers shall arrange the schedules of 
their respective sports, agree upon officials for games, see that their 
men are eligible, and perform such other business duties as are 
necessary. They shall have no voice in the granting of class emblems. 
They shall hold office for the season of their respective sport. 

AMENDMENT II 

Section 1. An officer shall be elected at the meeting at which 
this amendment is adopted, such an officer to be known as **The per- 
manent secretary of the Class of 1917". The term of office for the 
first secretary of the Class of 1917 shall be until one week following 
the regular class elections of the fall of 1915. His successor shall be 
elected at the regular fall election of that year, and will take office the 
following week for a term of one year. The retiring secretary shall be 
automatically a candidate for reelection, unless he request in writing 
to the Illinois Union his desire to have his name withheld, or unless 
by a vote of an advisory committee composed as hereinafter provided, 
he shall be declared ineligible for reelection. 

Section 2. The duties of the secretary of the Class of 1917 shall 
be to keep a history of the class involving all meetings, entertainments, 
and such things held by the class; to send out at necessary intervals 
blanks to all classmen, to be filled out by them with a view of obtain- 
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to file said blanks when returned; and to perform any other duties 
that shall seem helpful or essential to the keeping of a complete and 
satisfactory record of the class and its members. 

Section 3. The secretary of the Class of 1917 shall appoint a 
woman member of the Class of 1917 and a male member of the class 
to be known as the Woman's Assistant and Man's Assistant Secretary, 
respectively. The secretary and the two assistants shall form a com- 
mittee with power to receive and dispense money necessary to the 
care and management of their duties, and shall have complete charge 
and control of the work. They shall annually submit to the advisory 
committee a detailed report of work accomplished and a financial 
report. 

Section 4. An advisory committee shall consist of the Alumni 
Secretary of the University of Illinois, and the Dean of Women, and 
the Dean of Men. This committee shall audit the financial report of 
the secretary, advise him, and shall, if they see fit, declare the position 
vacant, or the acting secretary ineligible for reelection. 

For fifteen or twenty years it has been the custom for 
the freshman and sophomore classes, early in the fall, to 

hold a class scrap. In recent years this 
Class Contest has taken the form of a push ball contest, 

but in 1913 a sack race was held. The 
contest is held on the back campus under direction of mem- 
bers of the Students* Union. 

The choosing of class colors is in itself a small matter. 
It will, however, be the source of considerable annoyance 

later in the life of the class if these colors 
Class are inharmonious or crude. The colors are 

Colors seen in the sweaters of the class teams, 

and they are combined in the junior cap 
and in the senior hat. They should, therefore, be pleasing 
and dark enough to stand the hard constant strain of every- 
day wear. It has become a pretty well established custom for 
the freshmen to choose for their colors the color of the last 
graduating class. 

For years freshmen have been recognized on the Campus 
by the small green "postage stamp" cap which they wear. 

Fraternities and other organizations re- 
The quire their freshmen to wear these caps. 

Green Cap The military department now also requires 

all freshmen to wear these caps until such 
time as the military uniforms shall have arrived. The cus- 



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torn of wearing the cap is a good one which all freshmen 
should follow; it helps to differentiate classes, it aids the 
freshmen themselves in recognizing their classmates, and it 
gives a certain picturesqueness to the crowds of students as 
they pass back and forth between buildings. 

Students in the different colleges are distinguished by the 
colored button on the cap, white indicating the college of 
Liberal Arts and Sciences, yellow Agriculture, and red Engi- 
neering. During the winter months a green knitted toque is 
worn with similarly colored buttons. 

The political interest in the freshman class organization 
is relatively slight. The University traditions are against 
the freshman's going into social and polit- 
Class ical matters. It is not until the first sem- 

Elections ester of the sophomore year that any keen 

interest is shown in class elections. The 
president of the sophomore class for the first semester of the 
year leads the grand march at the Sophomore Cotillion 
which occurs on the last Friday night of the first semester. 
He also appoints the committee which has charge of this 
function. 

Interest is also shown in the election of officers of the 
sophomore class for the second semester, because at this 
time the managers of the class annual for the junior year are 
chosen, and although the class officers have no power in the 
appointing of these men, yet their influence usually counts for 
a good deal, and it is generally thought worth while at this 
time to be in political authority. The president for the sec- 
ond semester also appoints the committees in charge of the 
Sophomore Stag and the Sophomore Lid. 

The presidency of the junior class for the first semester 
is much sought after on account of the fact that the president 
leads the Junior Prom and appoints the Committee which 
has it in charge. The Prom is scheduled for the second 
Friday night in December and is one of the leading college 
social functions of the year. The committees in charge of the 
Junior Smoker and the Junior Cap are also appointed by the 
president of the class the first semester. The president for 



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the second semester has recently had the appointment of the 
Senior Memorial Committee and the Senior Hat Committee. 
The latter committee is appointed in the spring of the junior 
year so that the hats may be ready for use early in the fall. 

The senior class has no social events during the first sem- 
ester with the exception of the Class Smoker, the committee 
in charge of which the president appoints. The presidency for 
the second semester, however, is considered an honor worth 
striving for. This officer presides at the Class Day exercises, 
and leads the Senior Ball. He has also the privilege of ap- 
pointing some very important committees. These include the 
Senior Ball Committee, the Stag Committee, and the com- 
mittees on Invitations, Caps and Gowns, Senior Breakfast, 
Class Day, and Class Finance. The number of members on 
these committees varies from three to fifteen. 



Historical Sketch 

The University of Illinois is younger than most of the 
larger state universities, and besides the fact that it is young, 
it was slow in beginning its development. Like the other 
state universities the Illinois Industrial University, as it was 
at first called, grew out of the desire of the common people 
to furnish their children practical education as good as the 
best. 

In July, 1862, an Act was passed by Congress donating 
public lands, in the ratio of thirty thousand acres for each 
senator and representative, to the states and territories 
which would provide colleges for the teaching of agricul- 
ture and the mechanic arts. Under this Act Illinois would 
receive 480,000 acres of land valued at $600,000.00, the in- 
come on which could be applied for educational purposes. 
The Legislature of Illinois accepted the grant in February, 
1863. The following year a committee of six, of which Pro- 
fessor Jonathan B. Turner of Jacksonville, Illinois, was per- 
haps the most influential member, was appointed by the State 
Agricultural Society to take the matter up, and to present to 
the State Legislature a plan of organization. This was done, 
and in February, 1867, a bill was passed by the Legislature 
locating the institution at Urbana. This action was taken 
in view of certain donations amounting to perhaps $200,- 
000.00, made by the Illinois Central Railroad Company, 
Champaign County, and the cities of Champaign and Urbana. 
These donations included the ''Urbana and Champaign In- 
stitute Building," a large, ill-built structure standing approxi- 
mately where the baseball diamond on Illinois Field is now 
located. In this building, which was also used partly as a 
dormitory, the entire work of the University was for a few 
years carried on. 

The government of the University was at first vested in 
a Board of Trustees, consisting of the Governor, the Super- 

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intendent of Public Instruction, and the President of the 
State Board of Agriculture, ex-officio members, and twenty- 
eight citizens appointed by the Governor. The chief executive, 
who was also a member of the Board, was called Regent 
instead of President, as at present. This body was soon 
found to be too unwieldy, and in 1873 a new law was passed, 
providing that the Board should consist of nine members, 
(appointed by the Governor), three from each grand judicial 
division of the State. 

Women were not admitted, and the Trustees in the be- 
.ginning emphasized their belief in the fact that the University 
was to be made a practical institution by the following reso- 
lution : 

''Resolved, that we recognize it as a duty of the Board 
of Trustees to make this University preeminently a practical 
school of agriculture and the mechanic arts, not excluding 
other scientific and classical studies." 

Every student was required to spend from one to two 
hours a day in manual labor for the institution, for which a 
modest remuneration was allowed. Seventy-seven students 
were enrolled during the first term of the University, which 
began March 11, 1868. 

The first Regent, as he was then called, was Dr. John 
Milton Gregory of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Dr. Gregory 
served the University as its executive head from March 12, 
1867, a year before the institution was formally opened, un- 
til 1880. He was born July 6, 1822, at Sand Lake, New 
York. He graduated from Union College, in 1846, studied 
law from 1846 to 1848, and later, after some time spent in 
the study of theology, he entered the Baptist ministry. He 
taught in a secondary school in Michigan for a time, and 
was in 1858 elected state superintendent of public instruc- 
tion of the state of Michigan, which position he held until 
1863, when he was elected to the presidency of Kalamazoo 
College. He was a man of the highest ideals, and of the 
broadest sympathies ; he had a far-reaching vision of what 
such an institution as a State University should be, and 
should be able to accomplish ; and he endeavored to lay the 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 83 

foundations of the University deep and strong. He ex- 
ercised the strongest personal influence upon the student body. 

Women were first admitted to the University in 1870. 
The story is told that when the members of the Board of 
Trustees were deliberating over the matter in a room in 
the old dormitory, a group of students, much interested in the 
outcome were gathered in a room above listening through 
a friendly stovepipe hole to the discussion going on below. 
When the vote was finally taken, and was announced as 
favorable to the young women, an approving shout was 
heard from the gallant fellows above. The young women 
have ever since been thus kindly received. Twenty-two 
women registered the first year. 

In January, 1870, a mechanical shop was fitted up with 
tools and machinery, and here was begun the first shop in- 
struction given in any American university. 

The same year a system of student government was 
adopted which for a time seemed to work admirably. Politics 
soon crept in, however, and perverted justice, and the system 
was in 1883 abandoned. In 1871 a bill was passed by the 
Legislature appropriating $75,000.00 for a building to cost 
not less than $150,000.00, and providing that $75,000.00 addi- 
tional be appropriated at the next meeting. University Hall 
was begun, but the Legislature did not make the expected ad- 
ditional appropriation; and the building had to be completed 
with money taken from other University funds. A dark 
line may still be seen on the walls of this building where 
the bricks were stained from exposure during the delay ne- 
cessitated while waiting for funds. 

The first publication by the students of the University 
appeared in November, 1870. It was called the Student, 
and was published monthly. Two years following the name 
was changed to the Illini, by which name the University 
daily is still known. In 1877 the University was first given 
permission by the Legislature to grant degrees. Previous to 
this time graduates of specified courses had simply been given 
certificates indicating that they had satisfactorily completed 
an outlined course of study. 



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In 1880 Dr. Gregory resigned his position as Regent. 
He spent the remainder of his life in Washington, D. C, 
where he died October 20, 1898. By his own special request 
he was buried on the University grounds. His last resting 
place is marked by a prairie boulder under the trees between 
University Hall and Wright street. 

Dr. Selim H. Peabody, formerly Professor of Physics 
and of Mechanical Engineering, on the resignation of Dr. 
Gregory was appointed Regent pro tempore. The following 
March he was made Regent. Dr. Peabody was born at Rock- 
ingham, Vermont, August 20, 1829, and prepared for college 
in the Public Latin School of Boston. He was graduated 
from the University of Vermont in 1852. In 1877 he received 
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the same institution, 
and four years later was given by the University of Iowa 
the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. All of his life fol- 
lowing his graduation from college, was spent in teaching in 
high schools and colleges, both in the east and in the west. 
He came to the University in 1878 as Professor of Physics 
and Mechanical Engineering. He was a man of wide learn- 
ing. It is said of him that at the time of his appointment to 
the office of Regent in 1880, he could have taught successfully 
any subject then offered in the curriculum of the institution. 
He remained at the head of the University until 1891. He 
died at St. Louis, Missouri, May 26, 1903. 

During his administration a number of events occurred 
of interest in the development of the University. The Leg- 
islature, which had been niggardly in its appropriation of 
funds, became somewhat more generous, and made appropri- 
ations both for the maintenance of the institution and for 
the erection of buildings. The appropriation for the erec- 
tion of the present Armory was made in 1889, and for the 
north wing of the present Natural History Building in 1891. 
Professor N. C. Ricker drew the plans for both of these 
buildings. A number of departments were added to the cur- 
riculum, including Mining Engineering, Pedagogy, and Rhet- 
oric and Oratory, and an effort was made to gain a strong- 
er control of student affairs. The Illini was reorganized^ 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 85 

the time required to be put in by students in military drill 
was reduced, and fraternities and other secret societies were 
banished. A rule was passed that no student should enter 
the University until he had pledged himself not to join a 
fraternity, and that no student should be graduated until he 
had certified that while in the University, he had not belonged 
to any fraternity. The rule was strenuous, but was later re- 
pealed. 

The University had experienced a good deal of annoy- 
ance and found that considerable misunderstanding had arisen 
from the name "Illinois Industrial University," many people 
of the State having the idea that the University was a sort 
of penal institution or reform school. The Trustees, there- 
fore, petitioned the Legislature to change the name to 
"University of Illinois.'' This petition was acted on favor- 
ably in 1885, and brought great rejoicing to the friends of 
the University. The State Laboratory of Natural History 
was this same year brought to the University. 

By an Act passed in 1887 Trustees of the University 
were henceforth to be elected by popular vote. This change 
made it possible also for women to be members of the Board. 
The change in the manner of election helped materially to 
bring the institution before the people of the State, many 
of whom had previously known little or nothing of its char- 
acter or existence. 

On the resignation of Regent Peabody in June, 1891, 
the Board of Trustees appointed Professor T. J. Burrill as 
Acting Regent, and he served during an inter-regnum of 
three years. Up to this time the number of students in at- 
tendance had but once reached five hundred. The University 
was known almost exclusively, if known at all, as an engi- 
neering and an agricultural institution, though in agriculture 
it had few students, and had done little work. The Legisla- 
ture became more generous; appropriations for new buildings 
were received; more money for operating expenses was se- 
cured; graduate work was undertaken; and the whole institu- 
tion seemed to have an awakening. The attendance increased ; 
student organizations were aroused; the ban was taken off 



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fraternities ; and the relations between students and Faculty 
became more agreeable than they had been for years. Stu- 
dents were allowed greater liberty of action, and responded 
with greater sanity of conduct. A women's gymnasium was 
established; the Engineering Building was erected; and the 
office of Registrar was created. Everywhere a better spirit 
grew up. 

In April, 1894, Dr. Andrew Sloan Draper, then Super- 
intendent of the Cleveland, Ohio, schools was elected head 
of the institution, the title being changed from Regent to 
President. He entered upon the duties of his office Septem- 
ber, 1894. 

Andrew Sloan Draper, the third President of the Uni- 
versity, was born June 21, 1848, at Westford, New York. 
He was reared and educated in the state of New York, 
and for many years formed a large part of the political 
and educational life of that state. He was a graduate of 
the Albany Academy, and received his training for the pro- 
fession of law in the law school of Union College, graduat- 
ing in 1871. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of 
Laws from several of the leading universities of the country. 
For nearly a dozen years after his graduation in law, he 
practiced his profession. He was a member of the New 
York state legislature in 1881, judge of the United States 
Court of Alabama Claims in 1884 to 1886, and State Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction from 1886 to 1892. The two 
years previous to his coming to the University he had been 
superintendent of the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio. 
President Draper had had wide experience with men, in poli- 
tics and in educational work; he had shown his ability as an 
organizer; and he put this quality to good use in his manage- 
ment of University affairs. He established the fact that the 
University to be successfully operated needed more buildings, 
and more money, and he got both. He enlarged the facilities 
for work in all the colleges ; through his influence the College 
of Law was organized; the present School of Library Science 
was brought to the University; a School of Music was es- 
tablished ; and an affiliation was made with the College of 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 8/ 

Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago. He showed the keen- 
est personal interest in students and student activities. He 
was a rigid and successful disciplinarian, but he at the same 
time stood for what furnished students physical and social 
enjoyment. He enlarged the social life of the students; he 
encouraged athletics; he cultivated a friendly relationship 
between students and Faculty; and he brought about har- 
mony where there had been frequently dissension. 

President Draper managed in a large degree to put the 
University right before the people of the State, who in many 
cases had looked upon it with disfavor, or with indifference. 
It was by his skill in 1897, when the treasurer of the institu- 
tion defalcated, carrying with him nearly a half million dol- 
lars of University funds, that the University was brought 
through its difficulties with a minimum of loss and friction, 
and the State was immediately lead to fulfill its legal obliga- 
tion to the Federal Government by assuming the regular pay- 
ment of the interest on the endowment funds which had been 
stolen. Under his administration the Engineering Experi- 
ment Station was established ; eleven important buildings were 
erected at a cost of $835,000.00; the amount appropriated for 
general running expenses of the institution was increased 
three-fold; and the attendance grew from 750 to 3,500. 
Among the best services which he did to the University was 
to organize its regulations, and to put them into written form. 

Dr. Draper resigned his position as President in 1904 
to become the Commissioner of Education of the State of 
New York, a position which he held until his death in May, 

1913. 

Dr. Edmund Janes James, the fourth President of the 
Universit}^, assumed charge November 5, 1904. President 
James was born May 24, 1855, at Jacksonville, Illinois. He 
prepared for college in the Model Department of the Illinois 
State Normal School, Normal. He was later a student of 
Northwestern University, and of Harvard College, and re- 
ceived his Doctor's Degree from the University of Halle. He 
taught in the public high school of Evanston, Illinois, and 
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88 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 

School, Normal; from 1883 to 1896 he was Professor of 
Public Administration in the University of Pennsylvania, and 
Director of the Wharton School of Finance and Economy. 
From 1896 to 1902 he was Professor of Public Administra- 
tion and Director of the University Extension Division of 
the University of Chicago. He was President of North- 
western University from February, 1902, to September, 1904, 
when he resigned to become President of the University of 
Illinois. 

President James is the first native of the State of 
Illinois to be elected President of one of the three great uni- 
versities of the State — Northwestern, Chicago, and Illinois. 
He has presided over two of these, and was for six years a 
professor in the third. He is thus a Sucker by birth, educa- 
tion and career, — a genuine product of the corn belt itself, 
of which fact he is naturally proud. 

So far during President James' administration the Uni- 
versity has made material advances, especially along scholar- 
ship lines. Many new buildings, also, have been added, and 
the appropriations for operating expenses have been gener- 
ously enlarged at each biennium. Salaries of men of pro- 
fessorial rank have been increased fifty per cent., and for 
this reason it has been possible materially to strengthen the 
teaching force. Distinguished scholars have been brought 
to the University from all over the world, and emphasis has 
been laid upon the importance of the University's going 
into research and graduate work if it is to take its place 
among the great universities of the country. 

The Graduate School has become an actuality, and the 
Legislature and the people of the State have come to see 
its importance, and to approve definite appropriations for its 
support. A separate Graduate School faculty has been or- 
ganized, and graduate instruction has been developed and 
strengthened. There have been established a School of Edu- 
cation, the State Geological Survey, and a School of Rail- 
way Engineering and Administration. The colleges of Lit- 
erature and Arts and Science have been combined, and the 
standard of efficiency materially raised. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 89 

In May, 191 1, a law was passed providing for a one 
mill tax on all the assessed property of the State for the 
support of the University. Previously the University had 
had a somewhat uncertain source of support. From the 
general government it is receiving annually $112,000.00; from 
students' fees, exclusive of the Chicago departments, about 
$95,000.00; and from the interest on the endowment $32,- 
000.00. For all other sums it was dependent upon the bi- 
ennial appropriations of the General Assembly of the State, 
which was indefinite and uncertain. The one mill tax puts 
the regular support of the University upon a safer founda- 
tion, and assures a regular income. No other event in the 
history of the institution is more important than the pas- 
sage of this bill. 



The Organization of the University 

For the purpose of doing business the University is di- 
vided into schools and colleges, each with its separate body 
of instructors, or faculty. Each school is presided over by 
a Director, and each college by a Dean. At Urbana there 
are the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Engineering, 
Agriculture, and Law, and the Schools of Music and Library 
Science. 

The deans of the colleges, together with the President, 
the Vice-President, the Dean of Men, and the Dean of 
Women make up the Council of Administration. The Sen- 
ate is composed of professors, or those acting as heads of 
departments, even though they may at that time be below 
the rank of professor. Those persons who give instruction 
in a school or a college constitute its faculty. 

The Council of Administration, which is an executive 
body, meets every Tuesday at four o'clock. It has final 
action on all student disciplinary matters. Cases of discipline 
are first considered by a committee appointed by the Council, 
of which the Dean of Men is chairman in the case of men, 
and the Dean of Women in the case of women. The findings 
of these committees are reported to the Council of Adminis- 
tration for its final action. The Council considers all irreg- 
ular matters concerned with the waiving or the enforcement 
of general University rules. It is for the student a sort of 
court of last appeals. 

The Senate, which corresponds to the general faculty 
in most colleges, meets on the first Monday of October, 
December, February, April, and June. It concerns itself 
with legislative matters of a general character, or those 
which affect the whole institution. Its regulations have to 
do with such educational matters as affect all of the colleges, 
or the general University policy. It passes on such matters 
as entrance requirements, the requirements for graduation, 

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the general regulation of athletics, and so on. It has nothing 
to do with the enforcement of University laws. 

The faculties of the respective schools and colleges meet 
at times best suited to each individual organization. Some 
meet each week, and others only at the call of the Dean or 
the Director. Each faculty exercises legislative functions 
with regard to educational matters pertaining to its own 
work. It determines, for example, the amount and the char- 
acter of work which students may take, the prerequisites for 
courses, the conditions on which students may proceed, and 
so on. The final authority in executive matters lies with the 
Dean of the college. 

The Dean of Men is a general University officer who has 
charge of student activities, social matters, and matters of 
conduct pertaining to the undergraduate men. He is chair- 
man of the disciplinary committee for men, and has super- 
vision over class attendance. He is concerned with the con- 
duct, progress, and interests of individual students. The 
Dean of Women bears a similar relation to the undergrad- 
uate women of the University. 



The Campus and University Buildings 

The land occupied by the University and its several de- 
partments embraces 225 acres, besides a farm of 855 acres. 
The main part of the campus, the part used most for ordi- 
nary class work, is a long, narrow strip lying between the 
residence districts of Champaign and Urbana. The dividing 
line between the two towns is Wright Street, which forms 
the west boundary of the campus. Thus the University is 
located within the city limits of Urbana. 

University Avenue, which extends directly east from the 
Illinois Central Railroad station in Champaign, touches the 
north end of the campus. From this street south to the 
lower end of the campus proper is a distance of one and 
one-half miles. The north end of the campus is devoted to 
the athletic interests, containing Illinois Field and the Men's 
Gymnasium. The part of the campus between Springfield 
Avenue, the street intersecting the campus at the Men's 
Gymnasium, and Green Street embraces the buildings of the 
engineering group. The middle campus contains mainly 
buildings occupied by departments of the College of Liberal 
Arts and Sciences ; and with the exception of the Military 
Drill field, the College of Agriculture and the Agriculture 
Experiment Station, use the entire south campus. 

The privileges of the campus and the buildings are open 
to all members of the University, except where notice to 
the contrary is posted. It is traditional that persons using 
the campus and buildings shall keep to the campus walks 
and shall not mar in any way the exterior or interior appear- 
ance of the buildings. The University has made a request 
that there be no smoking on the campus or around any of 
the buildings. Otherwise the walks of the campus and the 
corridors of all of the buildings may be used with entire 

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freedom. In the main entry of almost all of the buildings 
there is a directory of the offices and rooms. 

In order that the readers of this book may fully under- 
stand the campus plan we shall start at the north end of the 
campus and explain matters as we go south. 

The MEN'S GYMNASIUM (i) and the OLD ARM- 
ORY (2) are located at the north end of the campus and 
front on Springfield Avenue. The first and second floors of 
the Gymnasium are given over to locker rooms, team rooms, 
and offices. On the second floor, immediately to the right of 
the entrance hall, is the office of the Director of Athletics and 
of the various coaches. Back of this office are the 'Varsity 
team rooms. To the left of the entrance hall are the of- 
fice of the Director of the Gymnasium, the Gymnasium Sup- 
ply Store, and the general lockers. The swimming pool is 
directly back of the entrance hall. On the third floor is the 
g}'mnasium exercise room, occupying the entire floor and sur- 
rounded by the running track. The general lockers, the 
swimming pool, and the exercise floor are open to all mem- 
bers of the University. Permits for lockers are obtained 
from the Bursar's office, and lockers are assigned by the 
Gymnasium custodian. 

The OLD ARMORY, so-called to distinguish it from 
the new armory now under construction, contains the as- 
sembly hall of the University regiment, a single large room 
with gun racks along the walls. This building is used for 
all of the University dances and class social gatherings ; in 
the winter it is used for basketball games and for indoor 
baseball practice. The administrative offices of the Univer- 
sity regiment are in Engineering Hall. 

Just south of the Armory and fronting on Burrill Ave- 
nue are the WOOD SHOP (3), FOUNDRY (4), METAL 
SH0P(5), and FORGE SH0P(6). In these shops is car- 
ried on the beginning shop practice for engineering stu- 
dents. The office of the Director of Shop Laboratories is 
in the Metal Shop building. 

The ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY 
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nue and is built of 3^ellow pressed brick. In this building is 
housed the equipment used in the courses in electrical engi- 
neering. The lecture and recitation rooms used in these 
courses are on the first floor. The office of the head of the 
department of electrical engineering and the offices of the 
members of the faculty of the department are on the second 
floor. 

The LABORATORY OF APPLIED MECHANICS (13) 
is next south of the Electrical Engineering Laboratory just 
across the "Boneyard." In the front part is the materials 
equipment, including a large machine for testing reinforced 
concrete beams. In the rear of the building is the hydraulics 
laboratory. 

ENGINEERING HALL (17), the main building of the 
College of Engineering, is located at the corner of Burrill 
Avenue and Green Street, fronting on Green Street. In the 
basement of the building and to the right of the Burrill Ave- 
nue entrance is the administration office of the University reg- 
iment. In this office freshmen members of the regiment re- 
cord their orders for military uniforms and present petitions 
having to do with military drill. To the left of this entrance 
are the offices and drafting rooms of the Supervising Archi- 
tect. The remainder of the basement and the entire first floor 
are occupied by the offices, recitation rooms, instrument and 
drafting rooms, of the departments of civil engineering and 
municipal and sanitary engineering. The main lecture room 
is on the second floor. On the third floor, immediately over 
the Green Street entrance, are the offices of the Dean and the 
Assistant Dean of the College of Engineering. On this floor, 
also, are the offices, recitation and drafting rooms of the de- 
partment of mechanical engineering. A portion of the third 
and all of the fourth floor is occupied by the department of 
architecture. 

Registration for courses in engineering is made on the 
second and third floors of Engineering Hall. Consultation 
concerning engineering courses may be had during the two 
days of registration with representatives of the various de- 
partments in temporary offices on these floors. 



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The LABORATORY OF PHYSICS (i6) is located east 
of Engineering Hall on the corner of Green Street and Math- 
ews Avenue. It is devoted entirely to work in the depart- 
ment of physics. The offices of the head of the department 
of physics are on the second floor. The large lecture room 
on the first floor is the meeting place of the University Senate. 

Along the paved alley-way between Engineering Hall and 
the Physics Laboratory are the various buildings comprising 
the power and heating plant of the University, together with 
the pumping station (14) and the fire department station. 
The main building of the power plant (7) is on Mathews 
Avenue just south of the street car line. In this building is 
the office of the Superintendent of Buildings, which is the 
central office for workmen employed by the University. 

The small stream which flows through this part of the 
campus is the Boneyard, a stream of many traditions. On 
the north bank of this stream and fronting east on Mathews 
Avenue is the MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LABORA- 
TORY (8). This building contains a major part of the ex- 
perimental equipm.ent for the departments of civil engineering 
and mechanical engineering. The office of the head of the 
department of mechanical engineering is in this building. 

The TRANSPORTATION BUILDING (45) is located 
just across Mathews Avenue from the Mechanical Engineer- 
ing Laboratory. The first and second floors are occupied by 
the departments of railway and mining engineering. The 
offxe of the head of the department of railway engineering 
is on the first floor; the office of the head of the department 
of mining engineering is on the second floor. The entire 
third floor is occupied by the department of general engineer- 
ing drawing. 

Back of the Transportation Building toward the car 
tracks is the LOCOMOTIVE TESTING LABORATORY 
(44). This building contains complete equipment for testing 
the largest railway locomotives. 

South of the Locomotive Testing Laboratory is the 
CERAMICS LABORATORY (46). In this building are 
housed all of the recitation rooms and laboratories used in 



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courses in ceramics. The office of the Director of Courses in 
Ceramics is on the second floor of this building. It also 
contains a part of the mining engineering laboratory and 
equipment, including a Mine Rescue station. 

The PRESIDENTS HOUSE (i8) is located on Green 
Street across Burrill Avenue from Engineering Hall. This 
is the home of the President of the University. 

Back of the President's House is the NORTH GREEN- 
HOUSE (12), in which is the office of the Superintendent of 
Grounds. 

The LIBRARY (19), a stone building with red tiled roof 
and huge tower, dominates the middle campus south of Green 
Street. This building houses the major part of the books 
forming the University library; the remaining books are dis- 
tributed among the various seminar and departmental libra- 
ries. The central room, opening from the entry hall, con- 
tains the loan department, with the large card catalog of all 
of the books in the various libraries. To the right of this 
room is the general reference room, and to the left is the 
periodical reading room; both of these rooms are open to all 
students for reading and studying. The office of the director 
of the library is in the east wing of the third floor. In the 
basement to the right of the stairway is the University Station 
Postoffice. 

To the east of the Library is the old UNIVERSITY 
HALL (20), the oldest building on the campus and erected 
in 1873. This building contains most of the classrooms and 
offices for undergraduate work in the departments of Eng- 
lish, French, German, Spanish, history, education, psychology, 
art and design, and political science. The offices of the Dean 
and the Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and 
Sciences are on the second floor at the head of the main stair- 
way. The office of the Director of the School of Education 
and of the Summer Session is on the first floor to the left of 
the main entrance. The office of the Director of the Music 
School is on the first floor in the extreme left end of the cor- 
ridor. The practice rooms and offices of the School of Music 
occupy the east end of the basement. The chapel is in the 



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east wing on the first floor. In the basement at the west end 
are the offices of various publications, The Daily Illinij The 
Iliio, The Siren, and The Alumni Quarterly. The rooms in 
which the men's literary societies hold their meetings are on 
the top floor. 

Registration for students in the College of Liberal Arts 
and Sciences is made in University Hall, and consultation con- 
cerning courses in this college may be held with representa- 
tives of the various departments with temporary offices in this 
building during the two days of registration. 

The LAW BUILDING (21) is to the east of University 
Hall. In it are the classrooms, offices, and library of the Col- 
lege of Law. The office of the Dean of the College of Law is 
at the south end of the corridor on the first floor. The law li- 
brary is at the north end of the second floor, and the moot 
court room is at the south end of the second floor. A general 
information bureau for the use of all members of the Uni- 
versity is located in the basement. 

Registration in the College of Law is made in the Law 
Building. 

East of the Law Building is the NATURAL HISTORY 
BUILDING {22). This building contains the departments of 
botany, zoology, physiology, geology, and mathematics. The 
general administrative offices of the University are also lo- 
cated in this building, pending the completion of the new ad- 
ministration building. 

In the north wing are the offices, laboratories, and recita- 
tion rooms of the department of botany, zoology, and psychol- 
og>% together with the office of the director of the state labo- 
ratory of natural history. In the middle part of the building 
on the first floor, just opposite the main entrance, is the main 
lecture room. Above this is a museum. 

In the south wing on the first floor and basement are 
the offices, lecture rooms, and laboratories of the department 
of geology, together with the general offices of the State 
Geological Survey. The department of mathematics occupies 
the top floor of this wing with offices, recitation rooms, and 
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On the second floor to the south of the main stairway is 
the office of the Registrar. This office issues permits for reg- 
istration, certificates for advanced standing, and has general 
charge of the records of scholarship. The Bursar's office is 
next south of the Registrar's office. The Bursar has charge 
of receiving payments for tuition fees, and all other fees paid 
by the students as a part of their registration. Locker per- 
mits are issued by this office. To the south of the Bursar's 
office are the offices of the Purchasing Agent, Comptroller and 
Assistant Comptroller. 

On the north side of the corridor of the south wing are 
the offices of the Dean of Men and the Assistant Dean of 
Men. At the end of the corridor is the office of the President 
of the University. 

The CHEMISTRY BUILDING (23) is south of the 
Natural History Building. It is devoted entirely to work in 
the courses in chemistry. The office of the head of the de- 
partment of chemistry is at the north end of the corridor on 
the first floor. Near by are the general offices of the Director 
of the State Water Survey. The Chemistry Lecture Room is 
in the middle of the building on the first floor opposite the 
main entrance. 

South of the Chemistry Laboratory is the AGRICULTU- 
RAL BUILDING (26). On the first floor opposite the main 
entrance is the administration office of the College of Agri- 
culture and the Agricultural Experiment Station. Connected 
with this office are the offices of the Dean and Assistant Dean 
of the College of Agriculture. On the floor above this office 
is Morrow Hall, the assembly hall for agricultural meetings. 
In this building are located the offices of the heads of the 
departments of agronomy, animal husbandry, dairy husbandry, 
horticulture, and veterinary science. 

Registration for courses in the College of Agriculture is 
made in this building. 

To the south of the Agricultural Building is a small 
building used in the work of the State Entomologist and 
his staff. To the south of this building is the ASTRONOM- 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 99 

ICAL OBSERVATORY (31), which houses the department 
of astronom}^ 

At the lower end of the south campus quadrangle is the 
AUDITORIUM (30). All general University exercises, in- 
cluding convocations and the commencement gatherings, are 
held in this building. It contains an auditorium seating about 
2,200 and a memorial vestibule. The annual convocation of 
new students is held here. 

Adjacent to the Auditorium on the west is LINCOLN 
HALL (29). This building contains offices, recitation rooms, 
and seminar libraries connected with advanced work in the 
departments of the classics, English, Romance languages, Ger- 
manic languages, history, economics, political science, sociol- 
ogy, and philosophy. On the fourth floor are two museums, 
the Museum of Classical Art and Archaeology, and the Mu- 
seum of European Culture. 

North of Lincoln Hall is the WOMAN'S BUILDING 
(25). The south wing contains the office of the Dean of 
Women, together with various parlors and rest rooms. The 
north wing contains the office of the Director of Courses in 
Household Science and the recitation rooms and laboratories 
used in courses in household science. The part of the building 
fronting on Wright Street contains the woman's gymnasium 
and the offices of the director of physical training for women. 

North of the Woman's Building is the COMMERCE 
BUILDING (24). This building contains the offices and reci- 
tation rooms of the course in business administration. Oppo- 
site the main entrance is the large lecture room, and near by 
are the offices of the director and assistant director of the 
courses in business administration. The office of the Dean of 
the Graduate School is also in this building. 

At the end of Burrill Avenue on the south campus is the 
STOCK JUDGING PAVILION (40). This building con- 
tains a large judging room with raised seats used in courses 
in animal husbandry, together with offices of some of the 
members of the animal husbandry faculty. 

To the east of this building is the FARM MECHANICS 
BUILDING, containing the offices, class rooms, and lab- 



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oratories of the courses having to do with farm machinery 
and farm buildings. The third floor is given over to the 
storage of a full equipment of the various kinds of machinery 
used in farming loaned to the College by manufacturing 
companies. 

Some distance away from this building to the east are 
the greenhouses and service buildings of the courses in flori- 
culture (48). Across the campus to the west is the building 
used as a field house (32) for work in horticulture. 

The new ARMORY (47) dominates the lower west part 
of the campus. This building contains a drill floor 200x400 
feet, together with company rooms, locker rooms, and class 
rooms. 



Miscellaneous Information 

RULES FOR UNDERGRADUATES 
The rules governing the conduct and management of un- 
dergraduate students are published by the University and may 
be had at the time of registration or by asking for a copy at 
any of the University offices. Students will do well to fa- 
miliarize themselves with these rules. 

MILITARY DRILL 

The University being one of the ''Land Grant'' colleges 
is required to give regular instruction in Military Science. 
All able bodied male students under twenty-five years of age 
and citizens of the United States must take Military drill 
during their freshman and sophomore years. Students twen- 
ty-five years of age when they enter the University, students 
who are not citizens of the United States, those who enter 
with junior standing, and those physically unfit, are excused 
from this requirem.ent. All other students must at the time 
of registration make a deposit of $16.20 for the uniform of 
cadet gray required, and register for the course in Military. 
Students not feeling able to buy a new uniform will find 
opportunity to pick up second hand uniforms in good con- 
dition. These must be approved by the Militar}^ office be- 
fore they can be received, and it is usually well for the new 
student not to pay too generous a price. 

During the early history of the University students were 
required to drill during their entire connection with the in- 
stitution, from the time they entered the academy until the 
end of the senior year. In 1880 seniors were excused from 
the drill requirements, and in 1891 "preps" and juniors were 
included among those excused. The University cadet regi- 
ment is now the largest in the country, and has been brought 
to a very high degree of efficiency. 

The non-commissioned officers of the regiment are se- 
lected from the sophomore class, lieutenants from the junior 

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class, and the field officers and captains from the senior class 
and the graduate school. 

Students who are absent from any exercise in Military 
drill must secure an excuse for this absence from the office 
of the Dean of Men and present it to the Military Com- 
mandant before Saturday noon of the week in which the 
absence occurs. Failure to do this will cause the student to 
make up two drills for every one thus absent. Absences 
from Military drill are not reckoned as other cuts. Students 
are disciplined in other and more severe ways for cutting 
Military drill than by being dropped from class. 

PHYSICAL TRAINING 

Physical Training is a required course for all freshmen. 
Students, however, who are physically unable to take the 
course may be excused by presenting a petition after regis- 
tration. Men who are doing manual labor to help earn their 
living, or who have other legitimate excuses, may be ex- 
cused from the gymnasium exercises by presenting a petition 
in person at the office of the Dean of Men. Blank forms for 
these petitions may be obtained from any of the executive 
offices. 

Lectures on personal hygiene are given once a week for 
the first six weeks of the first semester commencing on the 
week following registration. All students whether or not ex- 
cused for athletic or other work, are required to attend these 
lectures. ^ These lectures occur on the first day of the two 
days of the week on which Physical Training is scheduled. 
That is if Physical Training is scheduled on the study pro- 
gram for Tuesday and Thursday, the lectures will occur on 
Tuesday. Students will find their names posted on the bul- 
letin board opposite the entrance to the room in which the 
lectures occur. Any irregularities in the posting of names 
should be reported to the Dean of Men. The gymnasium ex- 
ercises do not begin until after the lectures on hygiene have 
ended. Students who on account of illness or other reason 
are unable to attend work in Physical Training should get 
an excuse from the office of the Dean of Men. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN IO3 

MEDICAL ADVICE 

Everyone at some time during his college course is likely 
to need medical advice. There are in Champaign and Urbana 
and about the University a number of excellent physicians 
and others not so good. Students should not engage a phy- 
sician without asking the advice of some one who has been 
in the community long enough to give intelligent advice. This 
will ordinarily not be another student. The Dean of Men will 
be glad to advise students on this subject at any time. No 
more important advice has been given in this book than that 
contained in this paragraph. 

STUDENTS* MUTUAL BENEFIT HOSPITAL FUND 

The Students' Mutual Benefit Hospital Fund, formerly 
the Hospital Association, was organized in 1899 to provide a 
fund to furnish hospital care for students in case of illness. 
Each student pays a fee of $1.00 a semester, and the sum 
thus raised, so far as the money available will do so, is used 
to pay the hospital ward fee of such contributors as fall ill. 
Students must be in good health when they pay the fee, and 
in case of illness are entitled to care for a length of time not 
exceeding four weeks each semester. The physician's bill and 
the fee for a special nurse, if one is required,, are not in- 
cluded in the amount paid out of the Benefit Fund. The fee 
will not be received later than three weeks after the first day 
of registration in any semester. You cannot spend a dollar 
more wisely than to contribute to this fund, since it insures 
excellent care and more rapid recovery in case of illness. The 
fund is managed by the Dean of Men. 

INTERMISSIONS 
An intermission of ten minutes is allowed between reci- 
tation hours in which students are to get from one building 
or from one class to another. Many instructors mark stu- 
dents absent who are not in the class room by the time the 
second class bell rings. Students who are unavoidably late 
will do w^ell to speak to the instructor at the close of the 
class period to avoid being marked absent. 



Calendar 

The University opens on the Wednesday nearest the 
twentieth of September. Registration days are the two days 

previous to the day of opening. Entrance 
Registration examinations are given the week before 

registration to such students as find it nec- 
essary to take them. New students who have not registered 
during the summer should obtain permits from the Registrar's 
office and should take these to the office of the Dean of the 
college in which they wish to register. Directions as to how 
to proceed will be given them there. Old students (men) who 
were not registered in the University the previous semester 
should obtain a permit from the office of the Dean of Men. 
Students registered the previous semester should go directly to 
the office of the dean of their respective colleges. Men who 
do not register upon the regular registration days must obtain 
a permit from the office of the Dean of Men and pay at the 
business office a fee of one dollar for late registration. All 
fees, including a deposit of $16,20 for the military uniform, 
are paid at the time of registration. 

A convocation of the men of the freshman class is held 

in the Auditorium at four o'clock 
Freshman Convocation on the first day (Wednesday) of 

the semester. 

Football practice begins by Conference rule on Sep- 
tember 20. Freshmen wish- 
Football Practice ing to try out for their team 

should see the freshman coach on 
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A reception to men is given by the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association on the second 
Y. M. C. A. Reception Friday night of the semester. 

All new men are welcomed. Re- 
freshments are served and an opportunity furnished to get 
acquainted. 

For the last fifteen or twenty years it has been the cus- 
tom for the freshman and sophomore classes, some time in 

October, to hold a class contest. At first 
The Class it was a color rush, later it took the form 

Contest of a push ball contest, and in 1913 a sack 

rush was held. This contest takes place on 
the back campus under the direction of the Students* Union, 
and hundreds of underclassmen take part in it. 

Class elections occur on the second Friday in October, 
under the direction of the Student's Union. 

Class Elections This includes the freshman class elections 
also. A primary election is held one week 

previous to the regular election. 

A report on the scholastic standing of all freshmen and 
special students and on all other students whose work is 
below 75 per cent, is made on the fourth 
First Report Friday in October to the dean of the col- 

On Scholarship lege in which the student is registered. 
Men may find out their standing in a gen- 
eral Vv^ay by calling a few days later than the date of the 
reports at the office of the Dean of Men. 

Students who are reported as doing poor work in m.ore 
than one subject are called to the office of the dean of their 
college for conference. 

The Fall Handicap is an annual event occurring in No- 
vember for track athletes representing 
Fall Handicap the various classes and handicapped on the 
basis of their previous records. Medals are 
given to the winners of places. The meet is the first try-out 
for prospective candidates for the 'Varsity Track squad. 



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On the day of the most important football game on 
Illinois Field a Home Coming celebration 
Home Coming occurs. Hundreds of old students visit the 
University, special meetings and demonstra- 
tions are held, and there is a general reunion of all college 
organizations. 

A conference of the high school teachers of the state is 

held at the University during the week 

High School previous to Thanksgiving. This confer- 

Conference ence is one of the most largely attended 

of its kind in the country. 

The Thanksgiving recess begins on Wednesday noon 
previous to Thanksgiving day and ends on the Monday noon 
following. Students may not without per- 
Thanksgiving mission absent themselves from classes 
Recess either immediately before or immediately 

following a vacation on penalty of being 
excluded from final examinations in such subjects as they cut. 
Students who find it necessary to extend their vacation may 
present a petition to the Committee on Student Progress ten 
days before the beginning of the vacation. Men may leave 
these petitions at the office of the Dean of Men and women 
with the Dean of Women. 

The Junior Prom is set for the second Friday night in 
December. It is considered the most for- 
Junior Prom mal and elarborate college dance of the 
year. Freshmen may not attend. 

A second report on scholarship is made to the college 

office on the second Friday in De- 
Second Report on cember. Students who have been 
Scholarship reported for poor work both in 

October and in December are 
notified and their parents written the facts. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN IO7 

The Christmas Concert by the Choral Society is given 

on the Tuesday evening of the 
Christmas Concert week previous to the beginning 

of the Christmas recess. 

A Christmas recess of approximately two weeks is given, 

the exact dates of which are an- 

Christmas Recess nounced in the University Cata- 

log. Students may not extend 

this vacation without permission of the Committee on Student 

Progress. 

Final examinations for the first semester begin on the 
last Thursday in January and continue for eight days. Most 

examinations are held in the forenoons 
Examinations from eight to eleven. Examinations in first 

hour subjects (8:00 to 9:00 o'clock) occur 
on the first day of the examination period, and so on. Students 
with conflicts must arrange these with the Dean of Men be- 
fore the time scheduled for the examination. The afternoons 
of examination days are occupied with the examinations in 
subjects the work of which is given in sections. 

The Sophomore Cotillion occurs on the Friday night of 

the first semester following exam- 
Sophomore Cotillion inations. 

Registration for the second semester occurs on the Mon- 
day and Tuesday following the 
Registration close of the first semester. Men 

who do not complete their regis- 
tration on these days must obtain a permit from the Dean 
of Men and pay a special fee of one dollar. 

A "stunt" program, called the Post-Exam Jubilee, in the 

auditorium, is presented under the 

Post-Exam Jubilee management of the Young Men's 

Christian Association, on the first 

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The Military Ball is given on the Friday night of the 

week in which Washington's 
Military Ball birthday occurs. 

The annual Military Band Concert occurs on the evening 

of the first Saturday in March. 
Band Concert 

Reports on scholarship for the second semester are made 

on the third Friday in March. But 
Spring Report on one report is made during the 

Scholarship second semester. 

The Easter recess begins on Thursday at twelve o'clock 

previous to Easter Sunday and 

Easter Recess ends on Tuesday noon following 

Easter Sunday. Students may 

not extend this vacation without special permission of the 

Committee on Student Progress. 

The "Welcome to Spring," an impromptu celebration in 

recognition of the coming of 

Spring Celebration spring, occurs without announce- 

ment on the first pleasant evening 

in early April. 

Interscholastic week occurs near the middle of May. The 

exercises of this week include the 

Interscholastic Week May Pole Dance on IlHnois Field, 

the Stunt Show, the Circus, and 

the athletic events of the Interscholastic meet. 

Between the fifteenth and the thirty-first of May are 
scheduled the military events of the year, including Military 
Day, the Hazelton prize drill, the annual 
Military Events military inspection, and the company com- 
petitive drill. An extra penalty is imposed 
upon the cadet who fails to be present at the last two events 
mentioned. 



FACTS FOR FRESHMEN IO9 

Examinations for the second semester begin on the 

Thursday nearest the first of June and continue eight days. 
Examinations are given in the same order 

Examinations as has been indicated for first semester ex- 
aminations. The afternoons are occupied 

\vith the examinations in subjects the work of which has been 

presented in sections. 

Commencement occurs on the week following the ex- 
aminations for the second semester. The events begin 
with a promenade concert given by the 
Commencement Military Band in the Armory on the 
Saturday evening of the week in which 
examinations are ended. 

On the Sunday afternoon following the band concert, 
occurs the Baccalaureate address. Monday is occupied with 
the Class Day program, and the Senior Ball in the Armory, 
Tuesday is Alumni Day, and Wednesday is given over to 
the exercises of Commencement. 

The Summer Session opens on the first Monday fol- 
lowing Commencement week and con- 
Summer Session tinues eight weeks. 



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